SANDPIPER. 161 



in much lefs quantity. It is ufual to fat thefe birds for the 

 table by means of bread and milk, mixed with hemp-feed, and 

 fometimes boiled -wheat, to thefe by many Jugar is added ; 

 which laft in a fortnight's time will caufe them to be one lump 

 of fat, when they will fetch from two millings to half a crown 

 each. The Reeve lays four eggs in a tuft of grafs, the beginning of 

 May, they are white, marked with large rufty fpots : and the 

 young are hatched in about a month. It is not known for cer- 

 tain where this fpecies pafs the winter, and perhaps it may be 

 fome time before we do ; for, as the bird has the characTxriftic 

 marks of the Ruff only in breeding- time, it may pofiibly pafs 

 unheeded among the feveral others of this genus. In the Leve- 

 rian Mufeum is a variety of the female, being wholly white, ex- 

 cept the wings, which have much the fame marking as ufual, 

 except of a very pale colour. 



2. 



Tringa vanellus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 248. 2. — Faun. Suec. 176. — Scop. Ann. u 



N° 141.— Brun. N° ijo.—Mulkr, N° igz.—Kram. El. p. 353.— +■ LAPWING, 



Frifcb. ii. 213. — Olin. Uc pi. in p. 21. — Georgi Reifs, p. 172. 

 Le Vanneau, Brif. Om. v. p. 94. I. pi. 8. fig. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 48. 



pi. 4. — PL Enl. 242. 

 Lapwing, or Baftard Plover, Raii Sjn. p. no. A. 1. — Will. Orn. 307. 



pi. 57. — Albin, i. pi. 74. — Br. Zool. N° 190. — ArSl. Zool. p. 480. D. 

 Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH thirteen inches and a half : weight eight ounces. Description. 



Bill one inch or more, and black : irides hazel : the crown 



of the head is glofTy greeniih black 5 at the back part fprings a 



creft compofed of narrow feathers, fome of which are four inches 



in length, and turn upwards at the ends : round the eye and the 



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