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LAPWING. 



neck, and the body above, are brown, the feathers edged with a paler 

 colour ; over the eye a broad whitish line ; beneath the eye a black 

 stroke pointing- downwards ; the throat, breast, and belly, whitish, 

 tinged with dull yellow on the two last parts, which, with the thighs 

 and vent, are marked with brown strokes ; quills and tail dusky, with 

 oval ferruginous spots on the inner webs ; legs bluish, short, and 

 strong ; claws black. 



This is a very bold bird, and was formerly used in falconry. It 

 is rarely met with in England, but is said to breed in Ireland. Mr. Pen- 

 nant speaks of one being caught in a decoy in Lincolnshire, pursuing 

 some wild ducks under the nets. 



The Lanner is found in many parts of Europe ; inhabits Iceland and 

 the Ferroe Isles, Denmark and Sweden ; it is frequent in the Tartarian 

 deserts, and is said to build among the low trees and shrubs, in the 

 deserts about Astrachan. * This bird is given by Temminck and Flem- 

 ing ; but as no mention is made of it by Selby or Vigors, it should seem 

 they doubt its existence.* 



LAPWING ( Vanellus cristatus, Meyer.) 



Tringa Vanellus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 248. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 670.— Ruii, Syn. p. 

 110. A. \.~WUl. p. 228. t. 57— Lai&. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 726.2.— Briss. 5. p. 94. 

 1. t. 8. f. 1.— Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 236.— Le Vanneau, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 48. t. A.— Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 559.— Lapwing, or Bastard Plover, Br. Zool. 2. No. 190 



lb. fol. 122. t. C*. f. 1 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 480. D Albin, 1. t. 74 Will. 



( Angl.) p. 307. t. 57 Haye's Br. Birds, t. 11.— Lath. Syn. 5. p. 161. 2.— 



Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 167 Putt. Cat. Dorset, p. 15. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 145. 



— Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 2o.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 111. 



Provincial. — Pewit. Green Plover. Peeseweep. 



This species weighs between seven and eight ounces ; bill black, an 

 inch long ; irides hazel ; the upper part of the head is black, glossed 

 with green ; on the back part the feathers are elongated into a crest, 

 some of which are above three inches in length and very narrow, re- 

 flecting a little at the ends ; the sides of the neck and round the eye is 

 white ; beneath the eye is a black streak ; the fore part of the neck 

 and upper part of the breast black ; the hind part brown, intermixed with 

 white ; back and coverts of the wings brownish green, glossed with purple 

 blue ; quills black, with a white spot on the tips of the first four ; the 

 secondaries are white half way from their base ; breast and belly white ; 

 vent and upper tail coverts pale ferruginous ; the base half of the tail 

 white ; the ends black ; legs dull orange. 



The female is less brilliant in colour, and the crest much shorter. 



This bird is common in most parts of the kingdom ; it breeds early 

 in the spring upon heaths and upland situations, as well as in fens and 

 moist fields, and not unfrequently in old fallow land. 



