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Order XIII 



habits, nests, and eggs differ but little from those of 

 its congeners. 



It is unnecessary to describe in detail the famUiar 

 Lapwing or Peewit {Vanellus vanellus), with its general 

 metallic black and white coloration, its buff tail-coverts, 



Lapwing 



and its long pointed crest. The bird is common in 

 every part of our isles and more or less resident, though 

 its numbers are greatly augmented in winter by immi- 

 grants from the north. The slow flapping flight of 

 its broad rounded wings is very characteristic, and 

 still more so its habit of wheeling round an intruder on 



