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VANELLUS CRISTATUS. THE CRESTED 

 LAPWING. 



PEWIT. PEESEWEEP. TUCU1T. GREEX PLOVER. CUROCHDAG. 



Fig. 12. 



Tringa Vanellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 248. 



Tringa Vanellus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 726. 



Lapwing. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Vanneau huppe. Vanellus cristatus. Temm. Man. d'Om. II. 550. 



Crested or Green Lapwing. Vanellus cristatus. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. 



II. 221. 

 Vanellus cristatus. Common Lapwing. Flem. Brit. Anim. 111. 

 Vanellus cristatus. Crested Lapwing. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 182. 

 Vanellus cristatus. Bonap. Comp. List, 46. 



A recurved occipital crest of linear feathers ; upper part 

 of head and fore part of neck black; upper parts green, 

 lower white ; tail ivhite, with a broad black band. 



Male. — The Lapwing, so named on account of its peculiar 

 mode of flight, is one of the most beautiful of our native 

 birds, and among the most familiarly known of the family to 

 which it belongs. It is considerably larger than the Golden 

 Plover, which it resembles in form, and in many of its 



