LADY LAPWING. 139 



LAND SWALLOW : The SAND-MARTIN. (Hett.) 

 LAND-TRIPPER : The COMMON SANDPIPER (Kirkcudbright.) 

 LAND WHAAP : The WHIMBREL. Whaap=Curlew. 

 LANG CRANE : The CORMORANT. (Redcar, Yorkshire.) 

 LANNER and LANNERET : The immature PEREGRINE 

 FALCON, formerly considered a distinct species. Lanner 

 was the name applied to the female, the male being termed 

 Lanneret. From Fr. Lanier, Lat. Laniarius, from laniare, 

 to dissever. The old Lanner of falconry appears not to 

 have been the Falco lanarius of Linnaeus (=Falco peregrinus), 

 but a species now called Falco ' feldeggi (Schlegel), found 

 throughout the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. 

 The name occurs as " Lanar " or " Lanaret " in Merrett 

 (1667), who says it is found in Sherwood Forest and Dean 

 Forest, while ^Willughby (1678) alludes to "the Lanner 

 whose Tarcel is called the Lanneret." 



LAPLAND BUNTING [No. 55]. The name is found in Gould's 

 " Birds of Europe " (pt. x, 1834). It is the Lapland Lark- 

 Bunting of Selby. 



LAPLAND LARK-BUNTING : The LAPLAND BUNTING. (Selby, 

 Macgillivray.) 



LAPLAND LONG-SPUR : The LAPLAND BUNTING. So called 

 from the length of the hind claw. 



LAPPINCH or HAPPINCH : The LAPWING. (Cheshire.) 



LAPWING [No. 367]. From A.Sax. Hledpewince, signifying 

 " one who turns about in running or flight " (Skeat). Writers 

 of the Middle Ages translated Lat. Upupa (=Hoopoe) as 

 Lapwing, being deceived by the crest. The name Lapwing 

 occurs in Turner (1544) and in Merrett, who further calls 

 it Bastard Plover and Pewit. Willughby also calls it the 

 Lapwing or Bastard Plover. A Lapwing is said to have 

 brought assistance by its cries to the wounded founder of 

 the old Lincolnshire family of Tyrwhitt, who assumed three 

 Lapwings as his device in memory of the deliverance. 

 That the story rests upon fact may be safely assumed, as 

 it is the invariable practice of the birds to circle round in 

 the air uttering their " pewit " cry when their haunts are 

 invaded. According to Chatto, however, the Lapwing is 

 regarded as an unlucky bird in the south of Scotland, the 

 cause being attributed to the fact that the Covenanters in 

 the reigns of Charles II and James II were " frequently 

 discovered to their pursuers by the flight and screaming of 

 the Lapwing." 



