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'iL'UiO r^LJ^ The Lapw'mgj or Bafiard Plover. Capella five Vannellus. 



^^^' . Numb. LXXIV. 



ITS Length is thirteen Inches and a half; Breadth when the Wings are extended two 

 Foot five Inches ; Weight is feven Ounces and a half, and oncDrarn. The Top of the 

 Head above the Crefl: is of a fhining black ; the Creft fprings from the hind Part 

 of the Head, and confifts of about twenty Feathers, of which the three or four fore- 

 itiofl: are longer than the reft ; in fome Birds of three Inches Length, the Cheeks are white, 

 only a black Line drawn under the Eyes through the Ears ; the whole Throat or under 

 Side of the Neck, from the Bill to the Breaft, is black, which black part fomewhat re- 

 fembles a Crefcent, ending in Horns on each Side the Neck; the Breaft and Belly are 

 white, as are alfo the covert Feathers of the under Side of the Wings ; the Feathers un- 

 der the Tail are of a lovely bright bay, and thofe above the Tail arc of a deeper bay; 

 the Feathers next them are dufky with a certain Splendor ; the middle of the Back and the 

 fcapular Feathers are of a delicate fhining green, adorned with a purple Spot on each 

 Side next the Wings ; the outermoft Edges of the Tips of the middlemoft of the long fca- 

 pular Feathers are whitifli ; the Neck alfo is of an afli Colour, with a Mixture of red, 

 and fome black Lines near the Creft. The three or four outermoft quill Feathers of the 

 Wings are black with white Tips ; the following to the eleventh are black, and from the 

 eleventh they are white at Bottom ; the hindmoft are more in order than the fore*.' 

 nioft ; yet this white doth not appear in the upper Side of the Wing, but is hid by the 

 covert Feathers ; thofe next the Body from the twenty firft are green ; the leftcr covert 

 Feathers are beautified with purple, blue and green Colours varioufly intermixed ; the 

 outermoft Feather on each Side is white, faving a black Spot in the exterior Web; the 

 Tips of all the reft are white ; the Bill is black, hard, roundifli, of an Inch in Length; 

 the upper Mandible a little more produced ; the Tongue not cloven; but its Sides refledl- 

 ing upwards make a Channel in the middle; the Noftrilsare oblong, and furniftied with a 

 flexile Bone; the Ears feem to be fituate lower in this than in other Birds, and the Eyes 

 are hazel coloured. The Feet are long and redifh, in fome brown ; the back Toe fmall, 

 and the outermoft fore Toe is joined to the middle one at the Bottom. The Liver is large, 

 divided into two Lobes, with a Gall annexed ; the Gizzard is not fo thick and flefhy as in 

 granivorous Birds, and therein was found Beetles like to Meal Worms ; they are fometimes 

 infefted with Lice. They lay four or five Eggs of a dirty yellow, with great Spots and 

 Stroaks of black : They build on the Ground, in the middle of fome Field or Heath open 

 and expofed to view, only laying fome few Straws or Bents above the Eggs, that the Neft 

 be not feen ; the young as foon as they are hatcht inftantly forfake the Neft, and follow 

 the old ones like Chickens. Thefe Birds are very ufcful in Gardens in the Summer time, 

 deftroying both Worms and Infeds ; and in Summer they fly not in Companies as in 

 Winter. 



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