CHAPTER III. 

 THE LAPWING. 



THE LAPWING or PEEWIT (Vanellus Cristatus), one of the 

 family Charadriidce (charadrius, according to Pliny, being 

 a bird the seeing of which cures one of the jaundice), 

 migrates to this country early in spring, and many of them 

 take up their abode in the marshes and water-meadows 

 which border many of our rivers, not only for breeding 

 purposes, but also for the abundant supply of food. It is 

 a very wary bird, and our attention is soon drawn to it as 

 it approaches us by its familiar cry, Peewit, peewit. 



No bird is more crafty in luring the intruder from the 



nest. The female slips off quietly, and runs for some 



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