BLACK WINGED STILT. 633 



Society have received specimens from Trebizond, presented 

 by Keith Abbott, Esq.; and Messrs. Dickson and Ross; 

 and the Russian naturalists, M. Menetries and Hohenacker, 

 found this bird also on the margins of lakes between the 

 Black and the Caspian Seas. Colonel Sykes and Major 

 Franklin brought specimens from different parts of India ; 

 B. Hodgson, Esq. includes it among the birds of Nepal. 

 M. Temminck says it is found in Japan, and Dr. Horsfield 

 includes it in his Birds of Java. 



The beak is black ; the irides red ; the whole of the 

 head, the neck all round, the breast, all the under parts 

 of the body and the tail-feathers white, with a few dusky 

 streaks behind the eyes and on the occiput ; the back and 

 wings nearly black, tinged with green ; the legs and toes 

 pink, 



The whole length about thirteen inches. From the car- 

 pal joint to the end of the wing eight inches ; the first quill 

 feather the longest. 



Females have the black colour on the back less pure, and 

 not tinged with green ; the dark streaks about the occiput 

 are more numerous. 



Young birds have the feathers of the back and wings 

 brown, edged with white, and more dark feathers about 

 the back of the head ; the legs orange. 



