TRINGA VANELLUS. 
LAPWING. 
Generic Character. See Tringa pugnax. 
Synonyms. 
Tringa Vanellus. Un. Syji, i. p. 248. 2. 
Lapwing or Bastard Plover. Br, Zool, 2. 190* 
Ih.foL 122. tah, C* fig, 1. Lath, Syn, 5. p, 
161. 2. Mont, Orn.^Bi^* Bewick's Bn 
Birds y Ft, u p. 318. 
Th 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 tO€ very fmall ; the down on 
mod parts of the body is quite black. The female differs but 
flightly from the male, the colours arc 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 moft 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 
moft generally known ^ it is a fprightly a6live bird, and is 
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