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Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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s of all naturalists. But this, of course, is a drop inthe ocean. It would not be difiicult—even for a syndicate of those who are onlyof moderate means—to acquire tracts of fen, waste, and sea-marsh, at presentprices, where a gun should never be fired, nor a prowling loafer or collectoradmitted. In such a sanctuary—not an impossible dream—^it might be possibleto see and watch the Avocet, Stilt, Spoonbill, Marsh and Hen Harriers, GreatBustard, and many warblers, ducks and Herons, which now, if they visit Britainat all, have but a short lease of life, and are quite unknown, except as skins,to the majority of English naturalists. Family—S COL OP A CID^. Black-Winged Stilt. Himajitopiis candidus, BoxNAT. THE Stilt has never been known to breed in Britain, but many specimenshave been obtained on our shores, mostly towards the south and eastof England. In Scotland some seven, in Ireland three, occurrences are onrecord. It breeds in the Camargue (Bouches du Rhone), Spain, Portugal,
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Black-Winged Stilt ^* ^jur. Autumn Plu MAGE The Black-Winged Stilt. 97 Sicily, Sardinia, Northern Africa, the Dobrudscha, Turkey, and the Black Seabasin generally, the vicinity of the Caspian and Aral Seas, in Palestine (insmall numbers), India and Ceylon, and Central Asia, as far east as China (where,however, it has not yet been found breeding, yet it must do so, as it occursthere in April and May, and I have the skin of quite a young bird, describedbelow, from thence). In Central and Northern Europe it occurs as a straggler,but does not appear to reach Norway, Sweden, or Finland. In Africa, as wellas breeding in the North, and Madagascar, it is found as a migrant down tothe extreme south. With us it seems to occur at any time of the year. Colour of adult male (Foochow, i8, 4, 86) : bill black, af inches long;iris bright red, almost carmine; crown and nape black, extending to the ear-coverts ; forehead, neck, shoulders, lower back and under parts, includingaxillaries, white, with a r

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