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LAPWING SANDPIPER. Class IL 



GENUS VI. SANDPIPER.* 



Bill straight, slender, not an inch and a half 

 long. 



Nostrils small. 



Tongue slender." ' 



Toes divided ; generally the two outmost con- 

 nected at the bottom by a small mem- 

 brane. 



1. Lapwing. Tringa. Vanellus. Tr. pedibus 

 rubris, crista dependente, 

 pectore nigro. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 726. id. Syn. v. 16I. 



Le Vanneau, Dixhult, Pape- 

 chieu. Belon av. 209. 

 1 Zweiel. Gesner av. 765. 



Pavonzino. Aldr. av. iii. 202. 



Pavoncella. Olina. 21. 



Lapwing, bastard Plover, or 

 Pewit. Wil. orn. 307. 



Vanellus, le Vanneau. Bris- 

 son av. V. 94. tab. 8. Jig. 1. 



Hist. dois. viii. 48. PI. 



Enl. 242. 

 Raii Syn. av. 110. 

 Kiwik. Kram. 353. Frisch, 



ii. 213. 

 Tringa vanellus. Gm. Lin. 



670. 

 Wipa, Kowipa, Blaecka. Faun. 



Suec. sp. 176. 

 Danis V Ibe, Kivit. Brunnichy 



170. 

 Scopoli, No. 141. 

 Br. Zool. 122. Arct. Zool. ii. 



186. 



XHIS elegant species inhabits most of the 

 heaths and marshy grounds of this island. It 



* This genus, the Tringa of Linnceus, wanting an English 

 name, we have given it that of the Sandpiper; most of the spe- 

 cies being conversant about shores, and their note whistling or 

 piping. 



