BLACK-WINGED LONGSHANKS. 
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lying between Woolmer forest and the town of Farn- 
ham, in the county of Surry . Another is recorded 
by Shaw to have been shot in Anglesea in the year 
1793. 
Wilson has given some very interesting notices 
in his American Ornithology relative to the manners, 
&c. of this bird, which I shall extract for the benefit 
of such of my readers as do not possess that valuable 
work. " It arrives," he says, " on the sea-coast of 
New Jersey about the 25th of April, in small de- 
tached flocks of twenty or thirty together. These 
sometimes again subdivide into lesser parties ; but it 
rarely happens that a pair is found solitary, as during 
the breeding season they usually associate in small 
companies. On their first arrival, and indeed during 
the whole of their residence, they inhabit those par- 
ticular parts of the salt marshes, pretty high up 
towards the land, that are broken into numerous 
shallow pools, but are not usually overflowed by the 
tide during the summer. These pools or ponds are 
generally so shallow, that with their long legs these 
birds can easily wade them in every direction ; and as 
they abound with minute shell-fish and multitudes of 
aquatic insects and their larvae, besides the eggs and 
spawn of others deposited in the soft mud below, 
these birds find here an abundant supply of food, and 
are almost continually seen wading about in such 
places, often up to the breast in water. In the 
vicinity of these bald places, as they are called by the 
country people, and at the distance of forty or fifty 
yards off", among the thick tufts of grass, one of these 
small associations, consisting perhaps of six or eight 
