L A P W I N G. Class II. 



vers, lay four a-piece; the puffin genus only one; 

 and the duck tribe, in general, are numerous 

 layers, producing from eight to twenty. 



The young as foon as hatched, run like chickens : 

 the parents fhew remarkable folicitude for them, 

 flying with great anxiety and clamour near them, 

 driking at either men cr dogs that approach, and 

 often flutter along; the ground like a wounded bird- 

 to a confiderable difrance from their ned, to elude 

 their purfuers - y and to aid the deceit, become more 

 clamorous when mod remote from it : the eeo-s are 



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held in great edeem for their delicacy \ and are fold 

 by the London poulterers for three millings the 

 dozen. In winter, lapwings join in vaft flocks -, 

 but at that feafon are very wild : their flcfh is very 

 good, their food being infects and worms. Du- 

 ring October and November, they are taken in the 

 fens in nets, in the fame manner that Ruffs are, 

 but are not prefer ved for fattening, being killed 

 as foon as caught. 



Their weight is about eight ounces : the length 

 thirteen inches and a half: the breadth two feet and 

 a half. The bill is black, and little more than an 

 inch long-; the crown of the head of a mining; black- 

 nefs : the creft of the fame color, confiding of 

 about twenty (lender unwebbed feathers of unequal 

 lengths, the longed are four inches : the cheeks 

 and fides 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 



