SANDPIPERS. 135 
Fam. SCOLOPACID &. 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. Himantopus candidus, Bon- 
naterre *. 
Hab. South and South-eastern Europe; India; Africa. 
Two near Dumfries: Sir R. Sibbald, Hist. Scot. lib. in. p. 18 
Pennant, Caledonian Zoology, p. 35, pl. 4. 
Six, Frinsham Pond, Hants, April 1779: Gilbert White, Nat. 
Hist. Selborne. 
One, Mountains of Clova, and one, Ben Lawers, Perthshire, 
August 1793: Don, Faun. Forfar. (1812). 
One, Anglesea, 1793: Montagu, Orn. Dict. (suppl.). 
One near Oxford: Pennant, Brit. Zool. 
Two, Lopness, Orkney, 1814: Baikie and Heddle, Hist. Nat. 
Orcadensis, p. 64. 
A pair, Hickling, Norfolk, 1822: Paget, Sketch N. H. Yar- 
mouth, p. 10. 
One, Northwold Fen, Norfolk, June 1822: Stevenson, Birds 
of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 244. 
One, Breydon Harbour, Yarmouth, May 1823: Stevenson, 
op. cit. 
One seen near Youghal, co. Cork, winter 1823: Thompson, 
Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), vol. 11. p. 221. 
One, Lincolnshire, July 1824: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 
VO, lls p. 677. 
One, Devonshire, and one Slapton Ley, near Dartmouth : 
Moore, Trans. Plymouth Inst. 1830, p. 331, and Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1837, p. 822. 
One, Poole, Dorsetshire: Yarrell, op. cit. 
* Himantopus candidus, Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyclop. Orn. vol. 1. 
p- 24 (1791). H. rufipes, Bechstein, Naturg. Vég. Deutschl. vol. iv. 
p- 446 (1809). H. atropterus, Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. Vog. 
Deutschl. vol. ii. p. 315 (1810). AZ. ielanopterus, Temminck, Man. 
@’Orn. vol. ii. p. 528 (1820). 
