587 



HIMANTOPUS CANDIDUS. 



(BLACK -WINGED STILT.) 



Himantopus, Briss. Orn. v. p. 34 (1760). 



Charadrius himantopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 255 (1766). 



L'JEchasse, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 114, pi. 118 (1781). 



Himantopus candidus, Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. Orn. i. p. 24 (1791). 



Himantopus vulgaris, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 325, pi. 28 (1803). 



Himantopus rufipes, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. 2nd ed. iii. p. 446 (1809). 



Himantopus atropterus, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 315 (1810). 



Himantopus albicollis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 41 (1817). 



"Himantopus melanopterus, Meyer," Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 528 (1820). 



Hypsibates himantopus (L.), Nitzsch, in Erscii & Grub. Encycl. xvi. p. 150 (1827). 



Himantopus plinii, Flem. Hist. Brit. Anim. p. 112 (1828). 



Himantopus longipes, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 683 (1831). 



Himantopus asiaticus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 44. 



Himantopus intermedins, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 265 (1849). 



Himantopus melanocephalus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 324 (1855). 



Himantopus nigricollis, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 324 (1855, nee Vieill.). 



Himantojms leucocephalus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 325 (1855, nee Gould). 



Himantopus brevipes, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 325 (1855). 



"Himantopus minor, Natt.," Hartl. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 170. 



Himantopus autumnalis, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 47 (1871, nee Hasselq.). 



"Himantopus europwus, Sand.," fide G. R. Gray, Hand-1. of B. iii. p. 47 (1871). 



Echasse blanche, French ; Ziguinuela, Spanish ; Cavalier $ Italia, Italian ; Fra servient, 

 Maltese ; Bou-Jcsaiba, Moorish ; grauschwanziger Stelzenlaufer, Storchschneppe, German ; 

 Bbdbenet-Styltel'dber, Danish. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 878; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 9; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 33 B; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 34. fig. 5 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 203 ; Gould, B. of Eur. 

 pi. 289; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 34; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 339; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. 

 pi. 28. 



c? ad. pileo postico, nucha et collo postico fumoso-nigris albo immixtis : regione interscapular! et alis intense 

 nigris viridi et purpureo nitentibus : cauda pallide cinerea : capite, collo et corpore reliquo albis : rostra 

 nigricante : pedibus rosaceis : iride coccinea. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed nucha et collo postico cinereo-nigris, dorso, scapularibus et secundariis intimis nigro- 

 fuscis. 



B2 



