. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . «SS\ X. x » :>nins Hlh. Hanhar! Jmp. HIMANTOPUS PECTORALIS BANDED STILT. HIMANTOPTTS. 289 * * Typical •J \\Sternum of Himantopus avoeetta. HIMANTOPUS AVOCETTA. COMMON remigibus tertii ordinis aut albis (in adult.) aut brunneis albo fasciatis (in juv.). Diagnosis. Swinhoes types of Becurvirostra sinensis are slightly suffused with grey on the mantle hind neck ; but other examples from China do not differ from North-European orAfrican bi
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . «SS\ X. x » :>nins Hlh. Hanhar! Jmp. HIMANTOPUS PECTORALIS BANDED STILT. HIMANTOPTTS. 289 * * Typical •J \\Sternum of Himantopus avoeetta. HIMANTOPUS AVOCETTA. COMMON remigibus tertii ordinis aut albis (in adult.) aut brunneis albo fasciatis (in juv.). Diagnosis. Swinhoes types of Becurvirostra sinensis are slightly suffused with grey on the mantle hind neck ; but other examples from China do not differ from North-European orAfrican birds. Recurvirostra avosetta, Linneus, Syst, Nat. i. p. 151 (1758); Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 256 (1766). Avoeetta avoeetta, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 538 (1760). Scolopax avoeetta (Linn.), Scopoli, Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 92 (1769). Avoeetta europsea, Durnont, Diet. Sc. Nat. iii. p. 339 (1816). Recurvirostra sinensis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1867, p. 401. Himantopus avoeetta (Linn.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 74 (1885). S3nonymy. 290 HIMANTOPUS. Literature. Plates.—Dresser, Birds of Europe, vii. pi. 534 ; Gould, Birds of Gt. Britain, iv. pi. 53. Habits.—Seebolim, British Birds, iii. p. —Seebolim, British Birds, pi. 24.
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