SANDPIPER. 301 



grasshoppers, &c. lays from two to four light olive eggs, marbled 

 with black, and deposited on the ground, on a bed of grass, some- 

 times on the bare earth : is furious in defence of its progeny ; but 

 if taken young, may be brought up, and is often kept tame, living 

 in the house, or with the other poultry. The flesh is in repute, being- 

 very savoury. 



69 .— LOUISIANE SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Ludoviciana, Lid. Orn. ii. 727. Gm. Lin. i. 706. 



Vanellus Ludovicianus armatus, Bris. v. 114. t. 8. f. 2. Id. 8vo.ii. 241. Gerin. iv. 480. 



Vanneau arme de la Louisiane, Buf. viii. 65. PL enl. 835. 



Armed Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 395. 



Louisiane Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 164. 



SIZE of the Lapwing ; length eleven inches ; breadth two feet. 

 Bill orange, depressed in the middle ; at the base a naked skin, of 

 the same colour, rising on the forehead, taking in the eyes, and 

 hanging on each side like a wattle ; crown black ; the rest of the 

 upper parts grey brown ; the under yellowish white ; at the bend of 

 the wing a sharp spur; quills black, more or less mixed with grey; 

 tail yellowish white, tipped with black; legs red, claws black. 



Inhabits Louisiana. 



A. — Parra Dominicana, Lin. i. 259. Gm. Lin. i. 705. 



Vanellus Dominicus armatus, Bris. v. 118. Id. 8vo. ii. 241. Gen. Syn. v. 165. 6. 

 Var. A. 



In this the bill and naked skin at the base are yellow ; the head 

 and upper parts pale yellow ; the under yellowish white, inclining 

 to rose-colour on the inner webs ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits the warmer parts of America, and St. Domingo. These, 

 or the last, may probably be the beautiful Lapwings, called at Rio 

 Janeiro, Disperteros, or Awakeners, on account of the noise they 

 make if disturbed in the night. A flock of them in any plantation 

 answers the purpose of an alarm bell against thieves.* 



* Maxim. Trav. 



