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at Whitemore Pond, near Guildford, in May, 1833. — William 
Stafford. 
Curlew. The curlew has been shot on the moors near Fren- 
sham. — W. K. 
Common Redshank. Inserted on the authority of Mr. Lew- 
cock. — J. D. Salmon. 
Greensliank. A single specimen of the greenshank was shot 
at Hampton Lodge. — W. K. 
Avocet. Inserted on the authority of Mr. Mansell. — J. D. 
Salmon. 
Black-winged Stilt. I find no notice of this bird since the 
very interesting one published in White's Selborne : it is as 
follows : — " In the last week of last month, five of those most 
rare birds, too uncommon to have obtained an English name, 
but known to naturalists by the terms of liimantopus^ or loripes, 
and Charadrius liiinantopm, were shot upon the verge of Fren- 
sham Pond, a large lake belonging to the Bishop of Winchester, 
and lying between Wolmer Forest and the town of Farnham, in 
the county of Surrey. The pond-keeper says there were three 
brace in the flock ; but that, after he had satisfied his curiosity, 
he suflered the sixth to remain unmolested. One of these spe- 
cimens I procured, and found the length of the legs to be so ex- 
traordinary, that, at first sight, one might have supposed the 
shanks had been fastened on to impose on the credulity of the 
beholder : they were legs in caricatiira ; and had we seen such 
proportions on a Chinese or Japan screen, we should have made 
large allowances for the fancy of the draughtsman. These birds 
are of the plover family, and might, with propriety, be called 
the stilt-plovers. Brisson, under that idea, gives them the ap- 
posite name of V^chasse. My specimen, when drawn, and stufi"- 
ed with pepper, weighed only four ounces and a quarter, though 
the naked part of the thigh measured three inches and a half, 
and the legs four inches and a half. Hence we may safely 
assert, that these birds exhibit, weight for inches, incom- 
parably the greatest length of legs of any known bird. The 
flamingo, for instance, is one of the most long-legged birds, 
and yet it bears no manner of proportion to the himantopus ; 
