$S« LAPWING. Ciafs IL 



Defer. Its weight is lefs than two ounces, inferior by half 

 to that of the fnipe ; for which reafon the French 

 call them deux pour un y we the half fnipe. The 

 dimenfions bear not the fame proportion ; the length 

 of the fnipe being thirteen inches j this ten. The 

 crown of the head is black, tinged with run: color ; 

 over each eye is a yellow itroke ; the neck varied 

 with white, brown and pale red. The fcapular fea- 

 thers narrow, brown, bordered with yellow. The 

 rump a glotTy bluifh purple: the belly white; the 

 greater quil-feathers dufky : the tail feathers brown, 

 edged with tawny : the legs of an afrV colored green. 



Genus IV. SANDPIPERS* 



I. The LAPWING. 



LeVanneau, Dixhuit, Papechieu. a-v. v. g^.. ta&. 8. Jig. i. 



Belonai). 209. Baiifn. a-v. 110. 



Zweiel. Gefnera~u. 765. Kiwik Kram. 353. 



Pavonzino. Aldr. av. lii. 2O2. Tringa vanellus. Lin.fyft. 248. 



Pavoncella.' Qlina 21. Wipa, Kovvipa, Blascka. Faun. 

 Lapwing, baftard Plover, or 5uec.Jp. 176. 



Pewit. Wil. orn. 307. Danis Vibe, Kivit. Brunnich \j&. 



Vanellus, le Vanneau. BriJJon Br. Zoo/. 122. tab. 



rj^HIS elegant fpecies inhabites mod of the heaths 



JL and marfhy grounds of this ifland. It lays 



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



The eggs have an olive caft, and are fpotted with 



* This genus, the 'Tringa of Liwusus, wanting an Evglifo name, 

 we have given it that of che Sandpipers; mod of the fpecies being 

 converfan: about fhores j and the.i note whittling orpipjng. 



black. 



