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[Vol. xliii. 



Harting, in a footnote, suggests that he referred to a pair 

 shot near Dumfries^ Scotland, and recorded by Sibbald in 

 1864 ['Scotia Illustrata,' II. iii. p. 18], and mentioned by 

 Pennant [' Caledonian Zoology/ p. 35, pi. iv.] . 



Pennant, however, recorded another example himself, shot 

 a few years before 1776, at Stanton-Harcourt Common, near 

 Oxford [Brit. Zool. 4th edition, vol. ii. p. 476 (1776)]. 

 White, apparently, had not read this later edition of ' British 

 Zoology,' as in his letter he states, " Mr. Pennant never met 

 with it in all Great Britain, but observed it in the cabinets 

 of the curious at Paris." This observation applies to the 

 first edition. 



White's record, therefore, comes third. 



In 1832 another specimen was obtained at Frensham Pond, 

 and by 1889 about thirty other instances had been reported. 

 Of these quite a large number — some seventeen — have come 

 from Norfolk, and most of the southern English counties 

 have contributed their quota. 



Dealing with the literature of the Charadriiformes gene- 

 rally, from 1894 onwards, the following references had been 

 collected for Himantopus himantopus in Great Britain and 

 Ireland : — 



TiCEHURST, N. F, 



191]. 



Black-winged Stilt in Sussex [1 seen several 

 times, Oct. 1910, then shot], Brit. Birds, iv. 

 1911, p. 262. 



1913. 



Ford-Lindsay, H. W. Stilts in Kent [2 specimens, Sept. 15 & 20, 



1918, toth shot]. Brit. Birds, vii. 1913, 

 p. 174. 



HiNCHLIPP, F. B. 



Williams, W. J. 



1915. 



Black-winged Stilt in Devon [seen only, Nov. 

 1915, not obtained]. ' Field,' 20. xi. 1915; 

 Note on, in Brit. Birds, ix. 1916, p. 215. 



1917. 

 Black-winged Stilt in Ireland [killed on a light- 

 house, April 1916]. Brit. Birds, x. 1917, 

 p. 251. 



