163 SCOLOPACID*. 



during passage^ and to some extent a winter resident, but 

 does not breed in Great Britain. It is a bird of very wide 

 range^ being found in almost all parts of the worlds breeding 

 on the shores of the northern portions of both hemispheres. 



Genus H-ffiMATOPUS, Unnceus, S. N. i. p. 257 (1766). 



Hcsmatopits = with blood-coloured feet ; from alfia + Tois. 



Haematopus ostralegus. Oyster-catchek. 



Hsematopus Ostralegus^ Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 357 

 (1766). 



Haematopus ostralegus^, Naum. vii. p. 335 ; Macg. iv. p. 153; 



Hewitson, p. 305 ; Gray, p. 142; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 496; 



id. ed. 3^ ii. p. 535 ; Gould, iv. pi. 45 ; Harting, p. 45 ; 



Dresser, vii. p. 567. 

 The Oyster-Catcher, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 433. 



Osf ruler/ im, from osfrea = an oyster, and lego — I bring together, collect. 



Resident in the northern districts of England and Ireland 

 and throughout Scotland, being found in the southern dis- 

 tricts only in the autumn, winter, and spring. It is found 

 throughout almost the whole of the Palsearctic Region, in 

 Asia as far south as Ceylon, and in Africa as far south as 

 Mozambique. 



Family SCOLOPACIDiE. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA, Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 256 



(1766). 

 EeowiMrostra, from recurms = turned back, and rostrum = the beak. 



Recurvirostra avocetta. Avocet. 



Recurvi rostra Avocetta, Linnmus, S. N. i. p. 256 



(1766). 



Recurvirostra avocetta, Naum. viii. p. 313, xiii. p. 245 • Macg. 



