TRINGA VANELLUS. 



LAPWING. 



Generic Character, See Tringa pugnax. 



Synonyms. 



Tringa Vanellus. Lin. Syft. 1. p. 248. 2. 

 Lapwing or Bastard Plover. Br. Zool. 2. 190* 



Ib.foL 122. tab. C* fig. 1. Lath. Syn. 5. p. 



161. 2. 0/7*. D/#. Bewick's Br. 



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P/. 1. p. 318. 



JL H I S fpecies is in length about twelve inches, and in 

 breadth near thirty inches, and weighs eight or nine ounces ; 

 bill about an inch long, the upper mandible is quite flat on the 

 upper furface ; feathers on the hind part of the head, from 

 three to four inches long, forming a creft which inclines up- 

 wards at the tip, thefe feathers are remarkably narrow ; irides 

 dark hazel ; legs flender ; hind toe very fmall ; the down on 

 mod parts of the body is quite black. The female differs but 

 flightly from the male, the colours are fomewhat duller, and 

 the creft is fhorter by one-third. In both fexes the feathers 

 on the body are double. 



The Lapwing is very common in moll: parts of the king- 

 dom, where it readily makes itfelf known by its cry, which 

 much refembles the word pee-wit, and by which name it is 

 molt generally known ; it is a fprightly a dive bird, and is 



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