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PLUVIALINJE. , STREPSXLAS. 
The Lapwing, generally dispersed, and familiarly known, 
frequents in summer wet heaths, moors, and marshy pastures 
or meadows. It nestles in April, depositing its four eggs in \ 
e hollow, slightly strewn with some straws. They are pyri- 
form, very large, yet much smaller than those of the Golden 
plover, an inch and ten-twelfths in length, an inch and two j 
or three twelfths in breadth, pale brownish-yellow, greenish- 
grey, or olivaceous, blotched, spotted, and dotted with brown- j 
ish-black. Being considered delicate food, they are collected 
in vast numbers, and exposed in the London markets. Dur- j 
ing the breeding season, the old birds shew great anxiety and 
considerable boldness, flying up to meet an intruder, plunging j 
and wheeling around him, and uttering incessantly their 
peevish wailing cry, which somewhat resembles the syllables 
pee-wee, or pee-o-wee, whence the common name of Pewit, 
and in Scotland Peese-weep. The young conceal themselves j 
by crouching until fledged. After the breeding season, they 
leave the marshy grounds, and betake themselves to the fields 
and pastures. They feed on insects and worms, run with 
great speed, and have a quick flight, differing from that of 
the Plovers in the flapping of the wings being slower and 
heavier. Although they never, at any season, fairly take up 
their residence on the coast, they often in winter frequent 
the sands exposed by the ebb. During the breeding season, * 
even when not disturbed, they may be seen flying about, now 
high, now low, hovering, gliding, and wheeling, with continu- 
ous noise of their wings, or producing an undulated loud hum 
by flapping them strongly, and at the same time emitting va- 
rious modifications of their usual cry. Their flesh, although 
good, is inferior to that of the Plovers. 
Pewit. Peese-weep. Teuchit. Green Plover. 
TringaYanellus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 248.- — Tringa Yanellus, 
Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 726. — Yanellus cristatus, Temm. Man. 
d’Qrnith. ii. 550.-— Yanellus cristatus, Green Crested Lap- 
wing, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
GENUS XCIL STREPSILAS. TURNSTONE. 
Only two species of this genus are known, one from the 
western coast of North America, the other dispersed over 
the shores of the greater part of the globe. They are small 
birds, having the body ovate and rather full ; the neck rather 
short ; the head oblong, and rounded in front. Bill a little 
shorter than the head, slightly bent upwards beyond the 
