Mr. Hill has favoured me with the following notes on this species: “In addition to the extraordinary length of leg of the _Himantopus_, it has been asserted that its leg-bones are as limber as a leathern thong, and that they can be bent up without being broken. The accurate Wilson has made this statement. I will not merely say that it is at variance with my experience, but that it is absolutely absurd. The bones of this bird are as rigid as those of any other. [To this I add also my own testimony.] The only peculiarity I observe in them, is a flatness in the make of the leg. While the measurement is a fourth of an inch one way, it is scarcely an eighth of an inch the other. The tendon that runs all along the limb is very large, and the skin that envelopes the whole leg very fleshy. A fleshy feeling of softness is _the only approach_ to the leathery peculiarity so confidently spoken of. The bill has a trifling trace, almost imperceptible, of recurvature. It is very rigid. Out of sixteen or eighteen birds carefully examined, I saw only one with a very decidedly marked recurved character. There was another circumstance I observed, very worthy of notice; viz. that the length of the legs of no two birds was precisely the same. Nearly half an inch of difference was found between the tibia and tarsus of the longest, and of the shortest specimens. [My own observation _fully_ bears out this statement.] “The birds brought me were shot while feeding in some shallow pools of water in the Salines at Passage Fort. They were wading deeply. They fed in small flocks, and winged about sportively, mingled with Sandpipers of the _Tringa cinerea_ species. A variety of Teal were there also; and the Shoveler Duck (_Rhynchaspis clypeata_), a peculiar insect-feeder, being among them at the same time, makes us pretty distinctly acquainted with the food of _Himantopus_. “In March 1842, I noticed several Stilt Plovers fishing breast-high in a lakelet at the mouth of the Rio Cobre, which I used to look upon from the window of the dwelling I stayed at, at Passage Fort. I saw some eight or ten together, when a Kingfisher was fishing at one end of the pond, and an Osprey at the other; the Kingfisher confining himself to the tranquil stream, and the Osprey to the broken waters, where the current of the river contended with the shoaling sea. I saw the Stilts there an hour together, beating breast-high over the pond. It was evident that their food floated on the surface.” * * * * * My friend adds _Recurvirostra Americana_, as an occasional visitant of Jamaica. +Order.+—ANSERES. (_Swimmers._) +Fam.+—ANATIDÆ. (_The Ducks._) RED FLAMINGO.[122] _Phœnicopterus ruber._ +Linn.+ Aud. pl. 416.