157. iiiMANTorus. 32 L 



1864, p. 178 (near the City of Mexico); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bag, 

 Scolopaces, p. 107 (1864 : pt.) ; Cones, Ibis, 1*65, p. I ",!) (Arizona) ; 

 Salvia, t. c. p. 192 (Guatemala) ; Dresser, t.c. p. 319 ; id. Ibis, 

 1866, p. 35 (S. Texas) ; Cones, t. c. p. 363 ; Leot. Ois. Trinid. 

 p. 464 (1866); Lawr.Ann. Lye. X. V. viii. p. 12 (1866; Panama), 

 p. 295 (New York) ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 591 (Mexiana) ; 

 * Sundev. (Efv. E. Vet.-Alad. Fork. 1869, p. 602 ( Porto Rico); 



Scl. $ Salv. P.Z. S. 1870, p. 323 (Indefatigable Isl.) ; Allen, Bull. 

 Miis. C. Z. ii. p. 356 (1871) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 48, no. 10294 

 (1871) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 383 (Cienaga) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 C. Z. iii. p. 171 (1872 : Great Salt Lake) ; Coues, Key X. Amer. 

 B. p. 247 (1872) ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 453 ; iid. Xomencl. 

 Av. Xeotr. p. 144 (1873) ; Sorting, Ibis, 1874, p. 254; Coues, B. 

 N.-West, p. 462 (1874) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H. ii. p. 308 

 (1874: Rio de Coahuana, Mazatlan); Hensh. Pep. Zool. 100th 

 Merid. p. 450 (1875 : Colorado ; Utah) ; Coues, Ibis, 1875, p. 498; 

 Salvia, Trans, Zool. Soc. ix. p. 502 (1875 : Indefatigable Isl.) ; 

 Lain: Bull. U.S. Xat. Mus. iv. p. 40 (1876 : Telmantepec, Aug.) ; 

 Peid, Zool. 1877, p. 475 (Bermudas) ; Sennett, Bull. U.S. Geol. 

 Surv. iv. p. 54 (1878 : Browusville, breeding) ; Lawr. Proc. U.S. 

 Xat. Mus. i. p. 197 (1878 ; St. Vincent), p. 238 (Antiirua), p. 242 

 (Barbuda) ; Maynard, B. East. X. Amer. p. 368 (1879) ; Cory, 

 B. Bahamas, p. 153 (1880) ; A. $• E. Xeicton, Handb. Jamaica, 

 p. 115 (1881) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 402 (Yucatan) : Sain,,, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 178 (British Guiana) ; Cory, Auk, iv. p. 231 (1887) ; 

 Salvia, Ibis, 1889, p. 379 (Cozumel) ; Feilden, t. c. p. 492 (Bar- 

 bados) ; Cory, B. Bahamas, 2nd ed. p. 153 (1890). 



Himantopus leueurus, Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. Xat. x. p. 42 (1817 : 

 Mexico). 



Black-necked Stilt. Xutt. Man. Orn. ii. p. 8 (1834). 



Hvpsibates nigricollis, Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758 (1848). 



Macrotarsus nigricollis, Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 422 (Cuba), 1874, 

 p. 313 (Porto Rico), 1875, p. 329 (Cuba); id.Orn.Cub.-p. 177(1876) ; 

 id. Anal. Soc. Es2). Hist. Xat. vii. p. 377 (1878 : Porto Rico). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above glossy 

 black -with a slight oily-green tinge ; wings entirely black slightly 

 glossed with green ; entire back, excepting the mantle, pure 

 white, including also the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers 

 pale smoky-grey, with white shafts and a great deal of white on the 

 inmr webs, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is 

 almost entirely white, with a little smoky grey on the outer web ; 

 forehead white, extending over the fore part of the crown, as far as 

 in a line with the eyes ; lores, cheeks, and under surface of body 

 pare white, the latter with a slight pinkish tinge ; ear-coverts 

 black, extending in a line underneath the eye ; below the latter and 

 behind the hinder part of the eye a white spot ; under wing-coverts 

 (jack : axillaries white: "bill deep black ; legs and feet tine rose- 

 pink or delicate pale lake-red (in life): iris rosy carmine" (Baird, 

 /'•<; km /•. \ Ridgway). Total length 11*5 inches, culmen 2-45, wing 

 8-3, tail 2-65, tarsus 4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with the back, scapulars, 

 and inner secondaries browner. Total length 12*5 inches, culmen 

 2*5, wing 8-4. tail 2-65, tarsus 4-2. 



Young birds have brown back? like the Mil females, but have 



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