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PEEWIT. 
PE-WIT. TE-WIT. LAPWING. COMMON LAPWING. 
CRESTED LAPWING. GREEN LAPWING. GREEN PLOYER. 
LAPWING SANDPIPER. FRENCH PIGEON. 
Vanellus crisiatus, Fleming. Selby. 
Tringa vanellus , Pennant. Montagu. 
Vanellus—Quaere from Vannus — A fan, from the farming 
' motion of the wings? Cnstatus— Crested. 
This very beautiful bird seems to be spread over the 
whole of the European continent, from Ireland and the Ferroe 
Isles, Russia, Siberia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, to Italy, 
Prussia, Germany, Spain, Holland, Greece, France, and Sardinia. 
It is also found in Africa,—in Egypt; and in Asia—in China, 
Japan, and Persia, and thence to the Black and Caspian Seas, 
the Lake Baikal and Astrakhan. 
It occurs throughout the whole of this country, but least 
plentifully in the midland and south-western parts. 
In Cornwall they are not uncommon near Swanpool and 
Gwyllyn Vase, but a flock of seventeen seen near Pennance, 
January 17th., 1850, was considered an unusual number. 
They frequent open places, heaths, commons, marshy grounds, 
the sides of drains, fallow and other fields, especially those 
which have not been drained. Hitherto the low districts of 
Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, and Lincolnshire, have 
furnished the largest supplies of their eggs, for the London 
market; but even the last-named county, once so proverbial 
for watery wastes, is now fast becoming altogether drained, 
and its agriculture has long since been second to none, so 
that in time different tenants will, beyond doubt, occupy the 
soil to the exclusion of others of a different class. 
