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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genu S — Himantopus. 
225. Hwmittopus candidus, Black-winged Stilt. 
An accidental visitor from Southern Europe. 
The examples mentioned by Gilbert White belong to 
Surrey, and our first record is therefore the bird mentioned 
by Bury as having been obtained near Yarmouth early 
in the last century. 
Yarrell gives William Borrer as his authority for the 
occurrence of a specimen near Havant. 
Mr. Stares informs us that an example was killed at 
Grange, near Gosport, many years ago. 
There is a male bird in the Hart collection obtained 
at Christchurch in July, 1873. 
Genu S — Phalaropus. 
226. Phalaropus hyperborous. Red-necked 
Phalarope. 
A very rare accidental visitor. 
In the "Zoologist" of March, 1883, Hadfield reported 
that a bird of this species, a little over seven inches in 
length, was received by Mr. Smith, the taxidermist of 
Newport, on October 29th of the previous year — " the 
first he had seen or heard of in the Island after twenty-one 
years' experience." 
Kelsall did not consider this quite sufficient evidence 
for the admission of the species into his list, but the 
record is to some extent confirmed by the fact that several 
