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LOUISIANE LAPWING* 
(Vanellas Ludoviciana.) 
Va. caruneulatus, corpore griseo-fusco^ suhtus basique caud<B albo~ 
rufescente, pileo remigibus Jascidque rectricum nigris. 
Carunculated Lapwing, with the body grey-brown j beneath, 
and the base of the tail, of a wliitish red j the top of the head, 
quills, and stripe on the tail, black. 
Vanellus ludovicianus armatus. Briss. Orn. 5. 1 14. 7- 2. 
Tringa ludoviciana. Lath. Ind, Orn. 2. 6. 
Parra ludoviciana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. ^ 06 . 
Vanneau arme de la Louisiane. Biif. Ois. 8. p. 65. — PL 
Enl. 835. 
Armed Sandpiper. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 305. 6. 
Louisiane Sandpiper. Lath. Gen, Syn.5. 164.6. 
This species is eleven inches in length : its beak 
is orange ; at its base is a naked yellow skin, 
rising up on the forehead, including the eyes, and 
hanging on each side of the mandible like a wattle : 
the top of the head is black : the rest of the upper 
parts are grey-brown ; the quills are mostly black, 
varied more or less with grey: at the bend of the 
wing is a sharp spur : the under parts of the body 
are yellowish white : tail yellowish white, withr 
a black tip : legs red : claws black. Inhabits 
Louisiana, 
