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63 LAPWING SANDPIPER. Cuass If. 
Descerr- Their weight is\ about eight ounces; the 
70S. Yength thirteen inches and a half; the breadth 
two feet and a half. ' The bill is black, and lit- 
tle more than an inch long; the crown of the 
head of a shining blackness; the crest of the — 
same color; consisting of about twenty slender 
unwebbed feathers of unequal lengths, the 
longest are four inches; the cheeks and sides 
of the neck are white, but beneath each eye is 
a black line; the throat and fore part of the 
neck are black; the plumage on the hind part 
mixed with white, ash color, and red ; the bagi 
and scapulars are of a most elegant glossy 
green, and the latter finely varied with purple; 
the lesser covert feathers of the wings are of a 
resplendent black blue and green; the ereater 
quil feathers black, but the ends of the four 
first are marked with a white spot; the upper 
half of the lesser quil feathers are black, the 
lower white; those, next the body, of the same 
colors with the scapulars; the breast and belly. 
are white; the vent-feathers and the coverts of 
the tail orange color. The tail consists of twelve 
feathers; the outmost on each side is white, 
marked on the upper end of the inner web with 
a dusky spot; the upper half of all the others 
are black, tipt with a dirty white; their lower 
