22 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the [Ibis, 



218. Himantopus candidus Bonuat. 



HimantopHs candidus D, & O. p. 462 ; La T. p. 580. 



I liave an example of the Black-winged Stilt, which was 

 shot in May 1911 at Lanchow. In 1913 Stilts were seen 

 several times at Chinwangtao between the 12th of April 

 and the 16th of May. 



219. Recurvirostra avocetta (L.). 

 Recur virostra avocetta D. & O. p. 461. 



I saw two Avocets in the Chinwangtao market one late 

 autumn. 



I noticed this bird on the banks of the river Liao near 

 Newchwatig in April 1889. 



220. Ibidorhynchus struthersi Vigors. 

 Ibidorhynchus struthersii D. & O. p. 456, pi. 118. 



Pere David states that the Ibis-Bill is a resident in the 

 mountains of Chihli and that it nests among the shingle 

 on the banks of the mountain streams. It was only in the 

 spring of 1915 that I was first made aware of the occurrence 

 of this bird in this vicinity by my collector bringing me two 

 eggs taken by him on the 23rd of Aprils which he said belonged 

 to a Curlew-like bird of grey plumage with red bill and legs. 

 On the 2nd of May following, I set out with my man to try 

 to find the bird and secure more eggs. We worked up the 

 stony bed of the Shih Ho (Shanhaikuan River) to the place 

 where the eggs mentioned above had been taken^ and the 

 empty nest was shown to me. It was a saucer-shaped 

 depression among the stones of a shingly beach, not far 

 from the banks of the main stream some two or three miles 

 from the mountains. This depression Avas lined, as described 

 by Mr. Uresser (Ibis, 1907, p. 323], with small stones, all 

 of much the same size, and it was about eight inches in 

 diameter. A few paces further on we came on another 

 empty nest resembling the first nest, and on our way back 

 to the river-bank we found a third nest — this one with an 

 adiiled egg in it. During the afternoon, as I was searching 



