162 SCOLOPACIDjE. 



during passage, and to some extent a winter resident, but 

 does not breed in Great Britain. It is a bird of very wide 

 range, being found in almost all parts of the world, breeding 

 on the shores of the northern portions of both hemispheres. 



Genus HJEMATOPUS, Linnaw, S. N. i. p. 257 (1766). 



Heematopw = with blood-coloured feet ; from aZ/icr -j- TOWS. 



Haematopus OStralegUS. OYSTER-CATCHER. 



Hsematopus Ostralegus, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 257 



(1766). 



Hsematopus ostralegus, Naum. vii. p. 325 ; Macg. iv. p. 152; 



Hewitson, p. 305 ; Gray, p. 142; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 496; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 525 ; Gould, iv. pi. 45 ; Harting, p. 45; 



Dresser, vii. p. 567. 

 The Oyster-Catcher, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 432. 



Ostralegus, from ostrea an oyster, and lego = I bring together, collect. 



Resident in the northern districts of England and Ireland 

 |f and throughout Scotland, being found in the southern dis- 

 , r I tricts only in the autumn, winter, and spring. It is found 



throughout almost the whole of the Palsearctic Region, in 

 Asia as far south as Ceylon, and in Africa as far south as 

 ozambique. 



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Family SCOLOPACID.E. 



Genus EECURVIROSTRA, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 256 



(1766). 



Eecurvirostra, from recurvus = turned back, and rostrum = the beak. 



Recurvirostra avocetta. AVOCET. 



Recurvirostra Avocetta, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 256 



(1766). 



Recurvirostra avocetta, Naum. viii. p. 213, xiii. p. 245 ; Macg. 



