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PRiECUClAL GKALLATOIIES — LnUCOL^E. 





VanelluB capella 



THE LAPWIMO. 



TriiKja vanellns, Linn. S. N. id. 10, 1758, 148 ; ud. 12, 1700, 248. 



Ckmulnita vaitrllus, \Va(il. Syst. Av. 1827, no. 47. — X.VUM. V0«. Dcutschl. IX. 1838, 200, pi. 179. 



Vanellm ctijicllu, Scii.vKKb'. (hn. Mii.s. 178U, 40. — Stkjn. Pioc. L'. S. Nut. Mus. Vol. 4, 1882, 35. 



Vtinelliis mil(j(vis, IlKfiisr, Orii. Tii.mIu'IiI). II. I,s03, 313. 



Vancllus crMiiiis, Mkykis, Vo^. UcnUchl. I. 181(i, 10. — Mawim., Man. II. 55. — Ki'.Y.s. & Bi.as. 



Will). Kur. tiO. — (iUAV, (icMi. B. 11. 541 ; (at. Biit. B. 1803, 137. — (Joui.D, Birds Lur. pi. 201. 



— UiiHiW. Norn. N. Am. 15. 1881, no. 512. — Couks, ('licck List, 2d ud. 1882, no. 503. 

 Vandlua gavin, X.v.xvw, Syst. ("at. 1810, 20. -Srici-ii. Gen. Zoi.l. XL 500, pi. 38. 

 Vancllus biivruis, BuKiiM, Vdg. Dnitsclil. 557. 

 The Peewit, or Laptnng, Yaiiu. Brit. B. od. 2, II. 481, fig. ; od. 3, 11. 515, lig. 





V, capella. 



Had. Entire Palajarctic region ; occasional in Arctic America (Greenland, " Reixhahdt, 

 Ibis, 18G1, 9;" i^huuU in Norton Sound, Alaska, Dall & Bannister, Trans. Chicago Acad. I. 

 1869, 293). 



Adult, breeding-plumitge : Pileuui, crest, fore-part of the lores and malar region, diin, throat 

 and entire breast, blue-black, faintly glossy. Side of the head and neck white, the aape ashy. 



Back, scapulars, and tertials, metallic bottle-green, changing to coppery purple on the outer scapu- 

 lars ; wing-coverts dark purplish blue, changing to greenish, becoming decidedly green on the 



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