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STILT. 



BLACK-WINGED STILT. STILT PLOVEE. 



LONG-LEGS. LONG-LEGGED PLOVEE. LONG-SHANKS. 



BLACK-WINGED LONG-SHANK. 



Himantopus melanopterus, SELBY. JENYNS. 



Plinyii, FLEMING. 



" atropterus, MEYER,. 



" rufipes, BECHSTEIN. 



Charadrius himantopus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Himantopus. Himantopodes 'Birds so called from the tenderness of their 

 legs.' Melanopterus. Melas Black, Pteron A wing. 



THIS curious bird belongs to Italy, France, Germany, Spain, 

 Eussia, Hungary, Greece, and Sardinia, in Europe. In Africa, 

 to Egypt in the north, occurring also southwards; and in 

 Asia, to India, Japan, Java, Persia, and the neighbourhood of 

 the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea; that district, one spot 

 of which is now for ever to be famous, as where 'Di tanti 

 palpiti, e tante pene,' 'ALMA gloria!' 



Specimens have been obtained in Devonshire and the Isle 

 of Anglesea; in Dorsetshire, near Poole; and in Hampshire, 

 near Havant. White, of Selborne, mentions five or six killed 

 out of a flock of seven on Frensham Pond, between Farnham 

 and Woolmer Forest; and Pennant instances one procured 

 near Oxford. In Cornwall, one was shot at Swanpool, near 

 Falmouth. In Norfolk, one was seen by the Rev. Eichard 

 Lubbock near Hickling Broad, on the 9th. of June, 1822, 

 and was shot the following day; a pair were shot by Mr. 

 Salmon, at Stoke Ferry, in Norfolk, in the spring of 1826; 

 one was killed in the same county, in July, 1824. , 



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