Class II. 



LAPWING. 



453 



BILL ftraight, (lender, not an inch and half long. 

 NOSTRILS fmall. 

 TONGUE flender. 



TOES divided ; generally the two outmoft con- 

 nected at the bottom by a fmall membrane. 



xxxr. 



SAND- 

 PIPER* 



Le Vanneau, Dixhuit, Pape- Rati fyn. a<o. no. 



chieu. Belon a<v. 209. Kiwik. Kram. 353. Frifch, 

 Zweiel. Gefner av. 765. II. 213. 



Pavonzino. Aldr. au» III. Tringa Vanellus. Lin. Jyfi. 



202. 

 Pavoncella. Olina, 21. 

 Lapwing, baflard Plover, or 



Pewit. Wil. orn. 307. 

 Vanellus, le Vanneau. Brif- 

 fonav. V. 94. tab. 8. Jig. I. 



248. 

 Wipa, Kowipa, Blxcka.. Faun. 



Suec. fp. ij6- 

 Danis Vibe, Kivit. Brunnich, 



170. 

 i?r. Zool. izl. Scopoli, No. 141. 



190. Lap- 



WING. 



^TpHIS elegant fpecies inhabits mod of the heaths 

 A and marfhy grounds of this ifland. It lays 

 four eggs, making a flight neft with a few bents. 

 The eggs have an olive cad, and are fpotted with 

 black. It is worthy of notice, that among water 

 fowl, congenerous birds lay the fame number of 

 eggs ; for example, all of this tribe, alfo of the plo- 



* This genus, the Tringa of htnnaus, wanting an Englijb 

 name, we have given it that of the Sandpipers ; moil: of 

 the fpecies being converfant about mores; and their note 

 whittling or piping, 



H h 2 vers, 



