PLOVERS 419 



KILLDEER PLOVER. JEgialitis vocifera (Linnseus). 

 Length, 9-5 in. ; bill, 0*9 in. ; wing, 6'5 in. ; tarsus, 

 1-4 in. 



Hab. United States, Mexico, West Indies, and tropical 

 America to Colombia. 



One, Knapp Mills, Christcburch, Hants, April 1859; 

 Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 275 ; Hart, ZooL, 1890, p. 272 ; 

 Wise, " New Forest," 1867, p. 318, figure. 



One, Tresco, Scilly Isles : Shot by Mr. Jenkinson, and set 

 up by Vingoe of Penzance, Jan. 15, 1885 ; Cornish, 

 ZooL, 1885, p. 113. In the collection at Trescoe 

 Abbey. Rodd's " Birds of Cornwall" appeared in 1880, 

 before this specimen had been obtained. 



Fam. SCOLOPACID^. 



BLACK- WINGED STILT. Himantopus candidus, Bon- 

 naterre. Length, 13 in. ; bill, 2*5 in. ; wing, 9*5 in. ; 

 tarsus, 4'7 in. 



Hab. Southern and South - Eastern Europe, India, 

 Ceylon, Western China, and Africa. 



Two near Dumfries in 1684 : Sir R. Sibbald, "Hist. Scot.," 



lib. iii. p. 18 ; Pennant, " Caledonian Zoology," p. 35. 

 Five killed at one shot near Penzance, circ. 1720 : Rodd's 



" Birds of Cornwall," introd. p. xxx. 

 One, Braunton, North Devon, circ. 1726 {fide Walter 



Moyle) : Rodd's " Birds of Cornwall," introd. p. xxx. 

 Six, Frensham Pond, Hants, April 1779 : Gilbert White, 



"Nat. Hist. Selborne." One of these was shot and 



came into the possession of White's brother; see 



Pennant's " Brit. Zool," vol. ii. p. 101. 

 One, Mountains of Clova, and one, Ben Lawers, Perthshire, 



August 1793 : Don, "Fauna of Forfarshire " (1812). 

 One, Anglesea, 1793 : Montagu, " Orn., Diet.," Suppl., 1813. 



