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Its weight is lefs than two ounces, inferior by 
half to that of the fnipe; for which reafon 
the French call them deux pour un , we the half 
fnipe. The dimenfions bear not the fame pro¬ 
portion 5 the length of the fnipe being thirteen 
inches ; this ten. The crown of the head is 
black, tinged with ruft color : over each eve is 
[Clafs II. 
a yellow ftroke; the neck varied with white 
brown and pale red. The fcapular feathers nar¬ 
row, brown, bordered with yellow. The rump 
a glofiy bluifh purple : the belly white; the 
greater quil feathers dufky : the tail feathers 
brown, edged with tawny : the legs of an afh- 
colored green. 
GENUS IV. SANDPIPERS. 1 
SPECIES I. The Lapwing. Plate £ *■ 
Lapwing, baftard plover, or Pewit. 
tVil. orn. 307. 
Vanelius. Brijfon 'av.. V. 94. Tab. 
8. Fig. 1 . 
HIS elegant fpecies inhabites mod of the 
heaths and marfhy grounds of this if? 
land. It lays three or four eggs, mak¬ 
ing a flight neft with a few bents. The young 
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as foon as hatched, run like chickens : the pa? 
rents fliew remarkable follicitude for them, flying 
with great anxiety and clamour near them, link¬ 
ing at either men or dogs that approach, and of¬ 
ten flutter along the ground like a wounded bird, 
to a confiderable dillance from their neft, to elude 
their purfuers $ and to aid the deceit, become 
more clamorous when moft remote from it : the 
Rati fyn. av. 11 o. 
Tonga vanelius. Lin. fyft. 148. 
Gefner av. 7 6 5 * 
eggs are held in great efteem for their delicacy. 
In winter, lapwings join in vaft flocks ; but at 
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that feafon are very wild : their flefli is very good, 
their food being infedfs and worms : their weight 
is about eight ounces: the figure expreftes the 
fize. The female is rather lefs, and wants that 
brown mark on the end of the tail. 
Merret , in his Pinax y p. 182. fays, that there 
is in Cornwal a bird related to this; but lefs than 
a thrufli, having blue feathers, and a long creft. 
+ This Genus, the fringet of Lmnczus , wanting an Englijh name, we 
have given it that of the Sandpipers; moft of the fpecies being conver- 
fant about ftiores ; and their note whiftling or piping. 
SPECIES II. The grey Plover. 
JVil. orn. 309. 
Rail fyn. av. 111. 
Tringa fquatorola. Lin. fyft. 149. 
T weighs feven ounces: the length to the tip 
of the tail is twelve inches : the breadth 
■J 3 L twenty-four : the bill black, about an inch 
long ; the head, back, and coverts of the wings 
Vannellus grifeus. Brijfon av. V. 
100. Tab. 9. Fig. 1. 
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black, edged with greenilh afh-color, and fome 
white. The cheeks and throat white, marked 
with oblong dufky fpots : the belly and thighs 
white : the exterior webs of the quil feathers 
black, 
