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CRESTED OR GREEN LAPWING. 
VaneLLus cristatus, Meyer. 
PLATE XXXIV. 
Vanellus cristatus, F/em. Br. Anim. 1. 111. sp. 160. 
Vanellus gavia, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 11. 509. pl. 38.—Leach, Cat. Br. Mus. 
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Cries Vanellus, Linn. Syst. 1. 248. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 670.— Raii Syn. 110. 
A. 1.—Will. 228. t. 57.—Briss. Orn. 5. 94. 1. t. 8. f. 1.—Zath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 726. sp. 2. 
Charadrius Vanellus, Wagler, Syst. Av. 1. 
Le Vanneau, Buff: Ois. 8. 48. pl. 4.—Id. Pl. Enl. 242. 
Vanneau huppé, Zemm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 550. 
Gehaibte Kiebitz, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 346. 
Lapwing, or Bastard Plover, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 453. No. 190.—Arct. 
Zool. 2. 480. D.—Will. 307. pl. 57.—Albin’s Br. Birds, 1. pl. 74.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. pl. 167.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 15.—Lath. Syn. 5. 
161.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, Ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 79.—Moné. Ornith. Dict. 1. 
—Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 84. 
Crested Lapwing, Shaw’s Zool. 11. 509. pl. 38.—F/em. Br. Anim. 1. 111. 
sp. 160. 
By its common appellation of Pewit, this bird is well 
known throughout Britain, where it is very abundant during 
the summer or breeding season, and is then found in almost 
every situation, from the upland dry or marshy moors, to 
the pasture and fallow grounds of the lower districts. In 
these various localities, after making a slight depression in 
the ground, which it lines with a few broken straws or dry 
stalks of grass, it deposits four eggs, like most of the vermi- Nest, &c. 
vorous Grallatores. They are of a deep oil-green colour, 
blotched and irregularly marked with brownish-black, and 
are brought in great numbers to the London market, where, 
as an article of luxury for the table, they always command 
a good price. On this account they are eagerly sought for 
in all the districts where these birds are numerous, and the 
open and extensive fields, as well as the rabbit warrens of 
Norfolk, with the fenny parts of Lincolnshire and Cam- 
bridge, furnish a principal part of the supply. The trade 
