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Fam. SCOLOPACID^E. 



BLACK- WINGED STILT. Himantopus candidus, Bon- 



naterre *. 

 Hab. South and South-eastern Europe ; India ; Africa. 



Two near Dumfries : Sir R. Sibbald, Hist. Scot. lib. iii. p. 18 



Pennant, Caledonian Zoology, p. 35, pi. 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. Diet, (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, North wold 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. ii. p. 221. 

 One, Lincolnshire, July 1824: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



vol. ii. p. 677. 

 One, Devonshire, and one Slapton Ley, near Dartmouth : 



Moore, Trans. Plymouth Inst. 1830, p. 331, and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1837, p. 322. 

 One, Poole, Dorsetshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



* Himantopus candidus, Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyclop. Orn. vol. i. 

 p. 24 (1791). H. rufipes, Bechstein, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. vol. iv. 

 p. 446 (1809). H. atropterus, Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. Yog. 

 Deutschl. vol. ii. p. 315 (1810). H. melanoptei*us, Temminck, Man. 

 d'Orn. voL ii. p. 528 (1820). 



