STILT. GRALLATORES HIMANTOPUS. 247 
perly, however, detached by Brisson, and obtained from 
him the generic name of Himuntopus, which has been gene- 
rally adopted by subsequent ornithologists. Its affinity to 
the Plovers is shewn in the form of its feet ; and the passage 
to the genus Charadrius is effected through the interposition 
of some of the longer-limbed species, and by the members of 
the genus Pluvianus. It also connects the present family 
with certain groups of the Scolopacide, as it shews an evi- 
dent affinity, both in form and manners, to the Avosets (ge- 
nus Recurvirostra) ; amongst which, indeed, WiLson was 
led to place the North American species, from the great si- 
milarity observed by that acute inquirer in their respective 
habits. The present birds inhabit the shores of the ocean, 
as well as of interior saline and fresh-water lakes, feeding up- 
on worms, insects, larvee, &c. which are obtained in the 
muddy shallows of the waters they frequent. Their moult 
is presumed by TEmmMinck to be double; for the fact does 
not appear to be established by actual observation. 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. 
Himanrorus MELANoPTERUS, Meyer. 
PLATE XXXIX. * 
Himantopus melanopterus, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 528.—Horsf. Trans. 
Linn. Soc. 13. 194.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 179.—Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. 
- 496. 
Mi cistapias rufipes, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 446. t. 25. f. 1. 
Himantopus atropterus, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. ? 315. 
Himantopus, Briss. 5. 33. t. 3. f. 1.—Raii Syn. 106. 9.—Will. 219. t. 54. 
Charadrius Himantopus, Linn. Syst. 1. 255. 11.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 690.—Lath. 
Ind. Ornith. 2. 2. 741. sp. 3. 
L’Echasse, Buff: Ois. 8. 114. pl. 8.—Id. Pl. Enl. 878.—Cuv. Reg. Anim. 
1. 496. 
L’Echasse 4 Manteau noir, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 528.—Lesson, Man. 
d@Ornith. 2. 340. 
Schwarzfliigelige Strandreuter, Meyer, Vig. Deutsch. 5. 2. Heft 21. 
Long-legged Plover, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 209.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 405. 
—Lath. Syn. 5. 195. 3.—Id. Sup. 252.—White’s Hist. Selb. p. 358.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. pl. 182.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, ed. 1826. 1. t. pl. 365. 
—Shaw’s Zool. sect. 1. pl. 80. 
Black-winged Longshank, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 180. 
Stilt, Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. p. 496. 
