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LAPWING. 
The Lapwing is a bird well known in all 
countries, and nearly every where to be met 
with. In summer they chiefly frequent such 
marshes as are not dried up in any part of 
the year. There, in solitudes formed by 
surrounding marshes, they breed and rear 
their young. As these birds run and feed 
upon the ground, so they are found almost 
always to nestle there. The number of eggs 
generally to be seen in each nest, is from 
two to four. The nest is made without any 
a . rt ; but the eggs arc either laid in some 
httle depression of the earth, or on a few 
hents and long grass, that scarcely preserve 
them from the moisture below. The young 
°ues, as soon as they are hatched, will for- 
sake the nest, running away with the shell 
on their backs, and following their mother, 
only covered with a kind of thick down. 
