BLACK-WINCJEP STIT,T.— (TREY FTT Al,.\"Rf)PE. L'I7 



hird was first observed by a fantK-r's boy, wbo \vms (hivinjij 

 some cows home in the (>venini;-, slanditig up to ils l)elly in 

 tlie water, piekinj:;, as hv tbou<^lit, at tbe flowers. It allowed 

 liim to a[)proacb Avitbin twenty yards, tluMi risinj^, alii;bled 

 again on tbc opposite bank. Tbe boy llien went bonie and 

 told Ids fatber, wbo, burrying to tb(> spol wilb a loaded i;nn, 

 found tbe bird still eini)loy(Ml in picking at tbe Mowers. It 

 was tbcn extremely wary and sby ol' tbe gun. Tbe man, 

 liowcver, wbose name was Pearson, at last sneeeeded in 

 shooting it as it Avas standing np lo i(s knees in Ibe water, 

 snapping at the inse(;ts. It was but little injured, and was 

 brougbt the next morning to Mi'. Knox, avIio found, on 

 dissection, that it contained a number of egL;s abont I lie siz(^ 

 of a pea. Tbe stomaeli was eranimed witb insects, and (lie 

 elytra of small be(;lles and gnats in a balf digested state. 



On May (Uli, IHSO, Mr. Clark Kennedy, being in the 

 marsbes between l']a,sl bourne and I'olcgate, Iiad liis ;it tent ion 

 attracted by his fo\ terrier chasing a, bird along a deep 

 diteli ; it ran witb long strides for a Cevv yards, and tben 

 flow close ))ast him, when ho saw that it was a Stilt. Tbc 

 bird appeared to be very tir(;d, and only Hew some two or 

 three yards, alighting in a similar diteb, wbenee be did no! 

 again dislodge it ('Zoologist' lor IKKO, p. .'JOO). 



(»IU:Y PIIAI.AI^OiM:. 

 Phalar opus f uli carms. 



In some seasons tbis most clegatit lilll(! bird visits iis in 

 very large nMnd)ers. Mr. .1. II. (imiiey inrornis ns t.lial out 

 of some live bnndnid whicb bad a[)p(!ared in tbe great immi- 

 gration between August 2t)tb and October Sfb, IM(!f», abont, 



