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THE COMMON LAPWING 
Vanellus cristaius, Meyer. 
PLATE XXV. 
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Tringa vanellus, Linn , &c. — Vanellus cristatus, Flem. Selby, 
$c . — Vanneau huppe, Temm . — The Common Green or 
Crested Lapwing of British authors . 
This beautiful and lively bird is abundant in 
suitable localities over the whole of the British 
Islands, though the inroads of cultivation are 
trenching rapidly on some of its favourite haunts. 
The improvements which have been made on lands 
that bore a subalpine character, and on that lower 
wet pasture, which, till lately, was not thought 
worthy of cultivation, and remained untouched by 
the plough, hate much curtailed them. We have, 
at this moment, a wide range of land, once favourite 
haunts of the Pewit and Curlew, where few are 
now to be found ; and on one farm, not exceeding a 
hundred acres in extent, forty or fifty pairs of Pewits 
might have been seen breeding yearly, whereas, at 
present, a single pair could not bo shot upon it. 
This, in one sense, may give some satisfaction in 
the improvement which has taken place, , and the 
