NATURAL HISTOEY OF THE LAPWING. 



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has an affinity with the Tringce and Totani tribes, 

 and its habits are, therefore, partly maritime. It 

 also, like these, changes its seasonal plumage ; it is, 

 however, larger in size, and though distinguished (in 

 one or two species) by its graceful and adorning crest, 

 its affinities are almost all plover-like. 



THE GREEN PLOVER. 



The whole of the British empire may boast the 

 possession of the Peewit ; yet is it far from being the 

 numerous family it was once in our country. Agri- 

 culture has greatly trended on its resorts, and locali- 

 ties once echoing with the clamorous cry of the 

 parent birds, and absolutely thronged with their 

 lively plumage, are now but thinly scattered over 

 with their lessened numbers. The lapwing likes 

 wet and boggy pastures, low moist meadows, fenny 



