BLACK-WINGED LONGSHANKS. 
small, and much flattened : the legs are disproportion- 
ably long, and are extremely thm and slender, and 
so flexible that they will bend considerably without 
fracture : the toes are three in number, and placed 
forwards ; the two outer ones being connected by a 
broad membrane from the base nearly to the middle, 
and the two inner ones by a small basal membrane 
only. Their manners are so fully detailed in the 
following pages, that any mention of them here is 
unnecessary. 
BLACK-WINGED LONGSHANKS. 
(Himantopus melanopterus.) 
Hi. albus, occipite nucha dor so nlisque nigris. 
White Longshauks with the occiput, nape, back, and wings 
black. 
Himantopus melanopterus. Horsfield. Linn. Trans, xiii, 2^. 
194. 
Himantopus atropterus. Meijer. Temm. man. d'Orn. 338. 
Himantopus. Raii, Syn.p. 106. Briss. Orn. 5. 33. p/. d.f. 1. 
Charadrius himantopus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 255. GmeL Syst. 
Nat. 1. 690. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 741. 
Recurvirostra himantopus. — Long-legged Avoset, Wils. Amer. 
Orn. V. vii. AQ.pl. Win.f. 2. 
L'Echasse. Buff. Ois. 8. 114.;?/. 8- Buff. PI. Enl. 878. Cuv. 
Reg. Anim. 1. 496. 
Echasse ^ manteau noir. Temm. I. c. Id. 2 Edit, ii, 528. 
Long-legged Plover. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 209. Penn. Arct. 
Zool. 2. 405. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 195. Lath. Syn. Sup. 252. 
IVhite, Hist. Selfj. f. p. 258. Letv. Brit. Bird's, 3. pi. 182. 
