BLACK-WINGED STILT, 305 



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HiMANTOPUS CANDiDUS, Boiiiiaterre*. 

 BLACK- WINGED STILT. 



Himantopus vielanoptcnis. 



HiMANTOPUS, Brissonf. — Beak long, slender, slightly recurved at the tip, cylin- 

 drical, flattened at the base, compressed at the point, both mandibles grooved 

 on the sides along the basal half of their length. Nostrils lateral, linear, elon- 

 gated. Legs very long and slender, three toes in front, the middle toe united to 

 the outer toe by a membrane of considerable size, and to the interior toe by a 

 membrane of smaller size ; claws or nails very small, flat. Wings very long, the 

 first quill feather considerably the longest in the wing. 



The Black- winged Stilt was first recorded as a visitor 

 to these islands by Sir Robert Sibbald,j who describes and 



* Tableau Eneycloped. et Meihod., i. p. 24 (1790). 

 t Ornithologie, V. p. .'53 (17tiO). 



X Scotia Illustrafa, II., p. 18, pis. xi. ti;,'. 1, and xiii. fig. 2 (1684). 

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