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PEEWIT. 



PE-WIT. TE-WIT. LAPWING. COMMON LAPWING. 



CRESTED LAPWING. GREEN LAPWING. GREEN PLOYER. 



LAPWING SANDPIPER. FRENCH PIGEON. 



Vanellus cristatus, FLEMING. SET BY. 



Tringa vanellus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Vanellus Quaere from Vannus A fan, from the fanning 

 motion of the wings? Cristutus Crested. 



THIS very beautiful bird seems to be spread over the 

 whole of the European continent, from Ireland and the Ferroe 

 Isles, Russia, Siberia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, to Italy, 

 Prussia, Germany, Spain, Holland, Greece, France, and Sardinia. 

 It is also found in Africa, in Egypt; and in Asia in China, 

 Japan, and Persia, and thence to the Black and Caspian Seas, 

 the Lake Baikal and Astrachan. 



It occurs throughout the whole of this country, but least 

 plentifully in the midland and south-western parts. 



In Cornwall they are not uncommon near Swanpool and 

 Gwyllyn Vase, but a flock of seventeen seen near Pennance, 

 January 17th., 1850, was considered an unusual number. 



They frequent open places, heaths, commons, marshy grounds, 

 the sides of drains, fallow and other fields, especially those 

 which have not been drained. Hitherto the low districts of 

 Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire, have 

 furnished the largest supplies of their eggs, for the London 

 market; but even the last-named county, once so proverbial 

 for watery wastes, is now fast becoming altogether drained, 

 and its agriculture has long since been second to none, so 

 that in time different tenants will, beyond doubt, occupy the 

 soil to the exclusion of others of a different class. 



