yet it is said to breed in Holstein, and the eggs are occasionally
brought to tins: conn try for sale by dealers from Hamburgh.
M.. Temminck says that: the Avocet .is-; abundant in
the North of Holland, but is more rare on the coast, and is
seen at the periods of its migrations in Provence, Switzerland,
and Italy. I t probably inhabits great pajt'“of'Africa, since
Dr. Andrew Smith has found it as far south-as the Gape'of
Good Hope; i t ' is found also' in' Egypt and at Smyrna. VM.
Hdhenacker includesj-ltiamong the birds seen between -the*
Black and the Caspian Seas; and Mr:-.. Selby mentions as a;
locality for it the salt lakes of Tartary. Mr. Go'uld saysS-oUr
bird is also found in India.
The specimen::from which the figure and; -3fescription here
inserted were taken, was,obtained in the LoPjhhr market in
the spring of 1814. The beak black, about three inches and
a half in., lengthy has very nauchJ the appearance'^&fitwo thin
flat piecesiof whalebone coming to a point-and^eufving »upwards
; the irides reddish brown; top of the head,- occiput,<
nape, and back of the nebk,iiKaik; ;*interscapulars' and upper
part of the? back, white; scapulars, Ite ie r* ^
the wing-primaries, black ; all the-other parts o f the -plumage
pure white ; legs and toes’ pale blue. >•
- -The whole length nearly eighteen inches..'; From-the carpal
joint to the end of the wing eighteipches' and a? half; th’e^first
quill-feather the longest in the wing.'
In young bards. Ufr the, year the - dark-coloured»’parts ofithe’1
plumage are tinged with brown; the scapulars edged »with
reddish brown. During the second year, till ifehe autumn
moult, sbme of the elongated dark feathers a re ' still reddish
brown-at the end.
GRALLATORES.
BLACK W IN G ED STILT.
i&fr^dr.m^ippntQp'^s, Long legged. Plover, P e n n . Brit. Zobl. VoLii. p . 1 0 0 .
„ ,, , , , , M o n t . Omith.. Diet.
t> ,, „ ,, B ewick, Brit. Birds,vol. i.p.374.
Himantopus PXvriïïlf' ' L&rig'Legs? Flem. Brit. An. p . 112.
11 melanopterus, Black,winged Stilt, S e l b y , Brit. Omith. vol.ii. p . 247.
; , , , , „ Long Shank?, jE N Y N S ,'B r it. Vert. p. 201.
fr" „ " ,, Long legged Plover, G o u l d , Birds of Europe, pt, iii.
, , Echasse à manteau noir, T b m m v Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 528.