Vol. xliii.] 



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Mullens, W. H. 



Portal, M. 



Baxter, E. F., and 



RiNTOUL, L. J. 



Joy, N. H. 



1920. 



Black-winged Stilt in Kent [1 seen only^ 

 May 16, 1919, not obtained]. Brit. Birds, 

 xiii. 1920, p. 272. 



Black-winged Stilt in Wigtonshire [seen only, 

 Oct. 17, .1920, not obtained]. Brit. Birds, 

 xiv. 1920, p. 164 ; Note on Scott. Nat. 1921, 

 p. 27. 



1921. 



Black-winged Stilt [Himantopus himantopus) 

 at Scatfield, Moray Firth, Scotland, 18tli 

 May, 1920, and at Ryan,* Wigtonshire, Oct. 

 1920 [Moray Firth, one, seen only, not ob- 

 tained. Latter occurrence refers to Portal's 

 bird, vide supra']. Scott. Nat. 1921, p. 108. 



1922. 



Shovelers breeding and occurrence of Black- 

 winged Stilts and other unusual birds in 

 Berkshire [birds seen, not obtained — same 

 birds as referred to by Wallis, Bull. B. 0. C. 

 xliii. 1922, p. 47]. Brit. Birds, xvi. 1922, 

 p. 54. 



This makes eight recent records since 1894, and possibly 

 more have been seen and yet not recorded {vide Coward, 

 'The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs,' vol. ii. 

 p. 179). 



The Editors of the 'Scottish Naturalist' (1921, p. 27), in 

 mentioning Portal's record from Wigtonshire {vide supra), 

 state that the Black-winged Stilt has only been found with 

 certainty some eight times in Scotland, and and the ' Hand- 

 list of British Birds,' 1912, and B.O.U.'List of British Birds,' 

 second edition, 1915, both give six for Ireland. From the 

 above it will be seen that another one has to be added to this 

 latter total. 



Though not what might be called a common bird then, it 

 is not such a very rare one. It might best be described as 

 an occasional straggler. 



