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the Lower Petchora, and have published a graphic 

 account of their discovery of several nests. See 

 also Seebohm's "Siberia in Europe," 1880, chaps, 

 xvii.-xviii. Beautifully coloured figures of the eggs 

 of this species by C. J. Fleming are given in The 

 This, 1876, p. 222, and in Seebohm's latest work 

 on the Eggs of British Birds, 1896. 



The weight of a Grey Plover averages from 8 oz. 

 to 10 oz., or a trifle more than that of a Golden 

 Plover. 



LAPWING or PEEWIT. Vanellus cristatus, Meyer. 

 PI. 19, lig. 10. Length, 12 in.; bill, -9 in. ; wing, 9 

 in. ; tarsus, 1 -5 in. 



Resident and generally distributed ; assembling 

 in large flocks at the approach of winter, when it is 

 to a certain extent migratory. It is gregarious and 

 crepuscular, feeding much in the turnip-fields at 

 twilight, as is the case with the Stone Curlew. 

 Although not web-footed, it can swim well on emer- 

 gency. In December 1894 a number of these birds 

 were observed resting on the surface of Lough Derg, 

 Co. Limerick, two miles from land, the wind blowing 

 very hard from the east (Field, Dec. 29, 1894). 



Great numbers are taken in nets, especially in 

 Ireland, by professional plover-catchers. The modus 

 operandi is described, with illustrations, in Sir R. P. 

 Gallwey's "Fowler in Ireland," 1882. One taken 

 alive at Bintree, in Norfolk, lived fourteen years 

 in confinement (Barlow, Naturalist, 1853, p. 82). 



The head of this bird, figured on PI. 19, shows its 



