OF SELBOBNE. 
tliat these long-legged plovers are birds of Soutli Europe, 
and rarely visit our island ; and wlien they do, are wan- 
derers and stragglers, and impelled to make so distant and 
northern an excursion from motives or accidents for which 
we are not able to account. One thing may fairly be 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. 
deduced, that these birds come over to us from the conti- 
nent, since nobody can suppose that a species not noticed 
once in an age, and of such a remarkable make, can con- 
stantly breed unobserved in this kingdom. 
Zoology," p. 35, pi. 4). Gilbert White's notice of tins species was the 
next in order of date, and since that time some thirty additional in- 
stances of its occurrence have been placed on record (cf. " Handbook 
of British Birds," pp. 135, 136). One of these relates to the occur- 
rence of a specimen in 1832 at the very pond where some fifty years 
previously it had been noticed by White. The author of " Ornitho- 
logical Rambles in Sussex " has given a very pleasing account of the 
habits of this singular bird, as observed on its occurrence in Sussex, in 
the "Ibis" for 1859 (p. 395), to which account the reader would do 
well to refer. — Ed. 
