THE LAPWING. 



IN the spring and summer months the Lapwing lives 

 on the inland pastures and moorlands. We find them 

 in greatest plenty in the marshy tracts, sometimes 

 several hundreds living in one scattered colony. Then, 

 too, in smaller numbers, they frequent the fallow land 

 and open commons. I, for my part, love to see the 

 Lapwing on the bleak, dreary moor, where the reed tufts 

 dot the wild grassy wastes, marking the marshy swamps, 

 or where the stunted heath informs us that the ground 

 is dry and sustaining, enlivening the air with its cries, 



