BLACK WINGED STILT. 629 



CRA LLA TORES. SCOLOPA CIDM. 







BLACK WINGED STILT. 



Himantopus melanopterus. 



Charadrius himantopus, Long-legged Plover, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 1 00. 

 w MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 374. 



Himantopus Plinii, Long Legs, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 112. 



melanopterus, Black ivinged Stilt, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 247. 

 Long Shanks, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 201. 



Long-legged Plover, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



n EcJiasse a manteau noir, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 528. 



HIMANTOPUS. Generic Characters. Beak long, slender, cylindrical, flattened 

 at the base, compressed at the point, both mandibles grooved on the sides along 

 the basal half of their length. Nostrils lateral, linear, elongated. Legs very long 



