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Fam. SCOLOPACIDtE. 



BLACK-WINGED STILT. Himanfopus candidus, Bon- 

 naterre *. 

 Hub. South and South-eastern Europe ; India ; Africa. 



Two near Dumfries : Sir R. Sibbald, Hist. Scot. lib. iii. p. 18 



Pennant, Caledonian Zoology, p. 35, pi. 4. 

 Six, Prinsham Pond, Hants, April 1779 : Gilbert White, Nat. 



Hist. Selbome. 

 One, Mountains of Clova, and one, Ben Lawers, Perthshire, 



August 1793: Don, Faun. Forfar. (1812). 

 One, Anglesea, 1793 : Montagu, Orn. Diet, (suppl.) , 

 One near Oxford : Pennant, Brit. Zool. 

 Two, Lopness, Orkney, 1814 : Baikie and Heddle, Hist. Nat. 



Orcadensis, p. 64. 

 A pair, Hickling, Norfolk, 1822 ; Paget, Sketch N. H. Yar- 

 mouth, p. 10. 

 One, Northwold Fen, Norfolk, June 1822 : Stevenson, Birds 



of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 244. 

 One, Breydon Harbour, Yarmouth, May 1823 : Stevenson, 



op. cit. 

 One seen near Youghal, co. Cork, winter 1823 : Thompson, 



Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), vol. ii. p. 221. 

 One, Lincolnshire, July 1824 : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



vol. ii. p. 677. 

 One, Devonshire, and one Slapton Ley, near Dartmouth : 



Moore, Trans. Plymouth Inst. 1830, p. 331, and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1837, p. 322. 

 One, Poole, Dorsetshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



* Himantopus candidus, Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyclop. Orn. vol. i. 

 p. 24 (1791). H. rufipes, Bechstein, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. vol. iv. 

 p. 446 (1809). H. atropterus, Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb. Vog. 

 Deutschl. vol. ii. p. 315 (1810). H. melanopterus, Temminck, Man. 

 d'Om. vol. ii. p. 528 (1820). 



