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THE BLACK-WINGED STILT. 
llimantopus melanopterus. 
PLATE XVIII. 
Charadrius himantopns, Penn., Mont., £c . — Hiraantopus 
melanopterus of modem authors, — Echasse a manteau 
noir, Temrn Long-legged Plover, or Black-winged Stilt 
of British authors. 
This bird has been known- as an occasional visi- 
tant to Britain since the time of Sibbald. It has 
occurred at rare intervals in the three kingdoms, 
and seems to have been met with both in the low 
fenny districts of England, and on the mountains 
of Scotland, either singly, or, as in the case of 
those mentioned in the History of Selbome, in 
small flocks of' five or six. Representing species, 
closely allied, but distinct, have been discovered in 
the other quarters of the world, and in New Hol- 
land ; and, perhaps, have been sometimes taken for 
the British bird, giving to it a range more extended 
than it in reality has. On good authorities, however, 
we have given to it India,* Java,+ and Japan. J Mr. 
Yarrell mentions, that the Zoological Society pos- 
sess specimens from Trebizond ; and in the south of 
* Colonel Sykes. •)■ Dr. Horsfield. t Temminck. 
