Mr. H. Seebohm on the Genus Himantopus, 233 



winters in the uortliern half of South America, but iu the 

 central portion of its range it is said to be a resident. 



HiMANTOPUS BRASILIENSIS. 



Himantopus brasiliensis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 684 

 (1831). 



Himantopus iiigricollis , auctorum multorum, nee Vieillot. 



Plates : Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 454 

 (woodcut of head) ; Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water- 

 Birds N. Amer. i. p. 345 (coloured plate of head). 



^'^^^^*' I Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 162. 



The Chilian Stilt may be recognized by the distribution of 

 the black on the back of the neck, which extends underneath 

 the eye, but not on the croivn, and is almost always separated 

 from the black mantle by a white collar. Young in first 

 plumage are supposed to differ only in being duller in 

 colour. 



It is said to breed in the Chilian subregion of South 

 America, the more southerly birds migrating northwards iu 

 autumn to winter in South Brazil. 



The Chilian Stilt appears to be most nearly related to the 

 Australian Stilt, scarcely differing from it except in having a 

 black band on the side of the head, and less white on the 

 collar. It is, however, almost as nearly related to the North 

 American Stilt, being, in fact, an intermediate form between 

 the two. 



Himantopus leucocephalus. 



Himantopus leucocephalus, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, 

 p. 26; et auctorum plurimorum. 



Himantopus novce-hollandice, Bonaparte, Compt. Rend, xliii. 

 p. 421 (1856). 



Himantopus albus, Ellman, Zoologist, 1861, p. 7470. 



Plates : Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 24. 



Habits : Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 246. 



Eggs : BuUer, Birds of New Zealand, p. 204. 



The Australian Stilt may be recognized when adult by the 



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