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one with my Collector's gun ; it is the one introduced 

 into the Case No. 58, containing Redshanks, Dunlins, 

 Ringed Plovers, etc. The two specimens in this case 

 I got on the "Green Island," in the Sound of Mull ; 

 they are in better plumage than the first-named. 

 Turnstones are cosmopolitan, for their distribution 

 embraces the best part of the world. 



CASE 46. 



THE LAPWING, THE BAR-TAILED 



GODWIT, AND KNOT. 



Order, LiniicolcE. 



The Lapwing. 

 Family, Charadiidce. 



This is a gregarious species, well known to 

 all, plentifully distributed over the British Islands, 

 and exceptionally abundant in Anglesey and Ireland. 

 In the former of these two named places I have 

 seen countless thousands conofreofated in hu^e flocks. 



The bird breeds to a large extent in our islands, 

 but the residents are augmented by immigrants from 

 the Continent durino- the autumn months. 



The Lapwing looks a clumsy bird as he flaps 

 along with his rounded wings, but his appearance is 

 quite altered when he gets excited over anything 

 that approaches his nest in the breeding-time. Then 

 he will soar up in the sky, swoop down on you, 



