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Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 
[Ibis, 
218. Himantopus candidus Bonnat. 
Himantopus candidus D. & O. p. 462 ; La T. p. 580. 
I have an example of the Black-wingecl Stilt, which was 
shot in May 1911 at Lanchow. In 1913 Stilts were seen 
several times at Chinwangtao between the 12th of April 
and the 16th of May. 
219. Recurvirostra avocetta (L.). 
Recurvirostra avocetta D. & O. p. 461. 
I saw two Avocets in the Chinwangtao market one late 
autumn. 
I noticed this bird on the banks of the river Liao near 
Newchwaug in April 1889. 
220. Ibidorhynchus struthersi Vigors. 
Ihidorhynchus struthersii D. & O. p. 456, pi. 118. 
Pere David states that the Ibis-Bill is a resident in the 
mountains of Chihli and that it nests among the shingle 
on the banks of the mountain streams. It w r as only in the 
spring of 1915 that I was first made aware of the occurrence 
of this bird in this vicinity by my collector bringing me two 
eggs taken by him on the 23 rd of April, which he said belonged 
to a Curlew-like bird of grey plumage with red bill and legs. 
On the 2nd of May following, I set out with my man to try 
to find the bird and secure more eggs. We worked up the 
stony bed of the Shih Ho (Shanhaikuan River) to the place 
where the eggs mentioned above had been taken, and the 
empty nest was shown to me. It was a saucer-shaped 
depression among the stones of a shingly beach, not far 
from the banks of the main stream some two or three miles 
from the mountains. This depression was lined, as described 
by Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 1907, p. 323), with small stones, all 
of much the same size, and it was about eight inches in 
diameter. A few paces further on we came on another 
empty nest resembling the first nest, and on our way back 
to the river-bank we found a third nest—this one with an 
addled egg in it. During the afternoon, as I was searching 
