IHK (HiAY l.AI'WING. yO;j 



judging of the situation and nuTnbcr of egg.s by the Londucl ol' the female bird, which, 

 when disturbed, leaves its eggs, and flies off to a considerable distance without uttering 

 any note of alarm." 



THE GRAY L\l'^VI^•f;.* 



This bird, wliioh is not very coinmon in Britain, holds a kind of intermediate place 

 between tlie lapwing and the plovers. The crested lapwing is between thirteen and 

 fourteen inches in length, measures fidly two feet and a-half in the extent of its wings, 

 and weighs eight ounces. The gray lapwuig is about twelve inches long, two feet in the 

 stretch of the wings, and seven ounces in weight. In England it appears only in winter, 

 when the under part is nearly all white, and much of the upper part ash-gray. 



* S(j«atiuola ciiicroa. 



