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HIMANTOPUS MELANOPTERUS. THE BLACK- 

 WINGED STILT-SHANK. 



STILT. LONGSHANK. LONG-LEGGED PLOVEK. LONG-LEGS. 



Fig. 26. 



Charadrius Himantopus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 25-5. 

 Charadrius Himantopus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 741. 

 Long-legged Plover. Charadrius Himantopus. Mont. Omith. Diet, and 



Supplt. 

 Echasse a manteau noir. Himantopus melanopterus. Temm. Man. 



d'Ornith. II. 528 ; III. 350. 

 Himantopus Plinii. Long-legs. Flem. Brit. Anim. 112. 

 Black-winged Stilt. Himantopus melanopterus. Selb. Illustr. II. 247. 

 Himantopus melanopterus. Black- winged Long-shanks. Jen. Brit. Vert. 



An. 201. 

 Himantopus melanopterus. Bonap. Comp. List, 54. 



In summer the bill black; the feet vermilion; forehead, 

 cheeks, neck, lower parts and sides of the body, with the 

 greater part of the back, ivhite; the breast tinged ivith rose- 

 colour; upper part of head and nape greyish-black ; fore 

 part of back, scapulars and wings black, glossed with green ; 

 tail ash-grey. 



