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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. — Rail, Syn. p. 
110. A. p. 228. t. 57. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2.p. 726.2. — Briss. 5. p. 94. 
1. 1. 8. f. 1. — Ib. 8vo. 2. p. 236. — Le Vanneau, Btiff. Ois. 8. p. 48. t. 4. — Temm. 
Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 559. — Lapwing, or Bastard Plover, Br. Zool. 2. No. 190 
Ib. 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. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 15. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 145. 
— Don. Br. Birds, 2. t. 25. — 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. 
