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STILT, 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. STILT PLOVEE. 
LONG-LEGS. LONG-LEGGED PLOYEE. LONG-SHANKS. 
BLACK-WINGED LONG-SHANK. 
Selby. Jenyns. 
Fleming. 
Meyer. 
Bechstein. 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Ilimantopus melanopterus , 
Plinyii, 
atropterus, 
rufipes , 
Charadrius himantopus , 
Ilimantopus. Himantopodes — ‘Birds so called from the tenderness of their 
legs.’ Melanopterus . Melas — Black. Pter on — A wing. 
This curious bird belongs to Italy, France, Germany, Spain, 
Eussia, Hungary, Greece, and Sardinia, in Europe. In Africa, 
to Egypt in the north, occurring also southwards; and in 
Asia, to India, Japan, Java, Persia, and the neighbourhood of 
the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea; that district, one spot 
of which is now for ever to be famous, as where ‘Di tanti 
palpiti, e tante pene,’— ‘Alma gloria!’ 
Specimens have been obtained in Devonshire and the Isle 
of Anglesea; in Dorsetshire, near Poole; and in Hampshire, 
near Havant. White, of Selborne, mentions five or six killed 
out of a flock of seven on Frensham Pond, between Farnham 
and Woolmer Forest; and Pennant instances one procured 
near Oxford. In Cornwall, one was shot at Swanpool, near 
Falmouth. In Norfolk, one was seen by the Rev. Richard 
Lubbock near Hickling Broad, on the 9th. of June, 1822, 
and was shot the following day; a pair were shot by Mr. 
Salmon, at Stoke Ferry, in Norfolk, in the spring of 1826; 
one was killed in the same county, in July, 1824. 
Before the complete drainage of the fens, says the Rev. R. 
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