LADY—LAPWING. 139 
Lanp SwaLtLtow: The SAND-MARTIN. (Hett.) 
LAND-TRIPPER : The COMMON SANDPIPER (Kirkcudbright. ) 
Lanp WHaapP: The WHIMBREL. Whaap—Curlew. 
Lane 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 Linnzus (—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-Buntine : The LAPLAND BUNTING. (Selby, 
Macgillivray.) 
LapLaAND Lone-spuR: The LAPLAND BUNTING. So called 
from the length of the hind claw. 
Lappincu or Happrnco: The LAPWING. (Cheshire.) 
LAPWING [No. 367]. From A.Sax. Hledipewince, 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.” 
