STILT.
CWTIA1D H I R G 0 E S , OF THE ANCIENT PETTISH.
BLACK-WINGED STILT. STILT PLOVER.
LONG-LEGS. LONG-LEGGED PLOVER. LONG-SHANKS.
BLACK-WINGED LONG-SHANK.
Himaniopus melanopkrus, SELBY. JENYNS.
" Plinii, FLEMING.
atroptcrus, MEYER.
" ruflpes, BECHSTEIN.
Charadrius himaniopus, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Himaniopus. Hivianhpod&s—1Birds so called from the tenderness of their
legs.' Melanopierus. Me/as—Black. Pteron—h Wing.
THIS curious bird belongs to Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Russia,
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, c tante p e n e , ' —'ALMA gloria!'
Specimens have been obtained in Devonshire and the Isle of
Anglesea; in Dorsetshire, near Poole; in I Tampshirc, near Ilavant.
White, of Selborne, mentions five or six kiUed 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 182fj; one was killed
in the same county, in July, 1824.
Before the complete drainage of the fens, says the Rev. R. P. Alington,
a few were now and then met with in Lincolnshire; one was sent up