WHITE-HEADED OR LONG-LEGGED STILT 87 
Local residents at the Lake, who call the birds " Avo- 
cets," tell me that they make their appearance with 
the fresh water after spring floods, disappearing soon 
after Christmas. I append a few field notes : 
October 26th, 1902. — A flock of about twenty on 
the south-west margin of the Racecourse Swamp ; 
always flew back there when disturbed. 
November i6th^ 1902. — Rather fewer birds at the 
same place. 
November iznd^ 1902. — A very small flock still 
there. 
October 21st, 191 1. — Mr. J. F. Mulder reports a 
small flock on Fyans' Swamps, Prince's Bridge, 
recently, and about this date there was a large flock 
on Connewarre Lake. 
The White-headed Stilts bred on an artificially 
filled swamp on Wurrook South, Rokewood, in the 
spring of 1912. Mr. Allen Noble tells me that about 
fifty birds arrived in September and began building 
about October 8th. There were some twenty nests, 
built of water-grass and dotted about the swamp. 
Horses grazed in the swamp (which had about 2 feet 
of water in it, and was refilled from time to time), 
and Mr. Noble saw the birds beating up the water 
with their wings about the nests to drive the horses 
away. The young resembled young Plover, and 
though, of course, not web-footed, they swam readily. 
The eggs numbered two, three, and occasionally four. 
The nests were not built up from the bottom, but 
