CAYENNE LAEWING. 
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Cirested Lapwing, with the back of a purple-green ; the neck 
reddish ; the forehead, throat, fascia on the breast, and tail, 
black ; the outer edge of the wings, the abdomen, and base 
of the tail, white. 
Tringa Cayanensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. ^27« 5. 
Earra Cayennensis. Grhtl. Syst. Nat. 1. 70 S. 
Vanneau arme de Cayenne. Luff. Ois. 8. 66. — Buff. PI. Enl, 836. 
Cayenne Sandpiper. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. l64. 5. 
Less than the preceding: length eight inches 
and a half : beak red, with a black tip : the fore^ 
head and throat are black ; the ‘middle of the 
crown cinereous : the hind head brown, with five 
or six long dusky feathers, similar to those of the 
Lapwing : the neck is dusky white : the back 
greenish purple : on the breast is a broad black 
band : the belly and vent are white : one third of 
the outside of the wing is white ; near its bend is 
a short, rather curved, brown spur : the half of the 
tail at the base is white, the rest black, with the 
tip edged with white : legs reddish : claws black* 
Inhabits the marshy savannahs of Cayenne, feeding 
on insects* 
V. XI. P. II. 
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