. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . d of having the middle feathers longer;they have a hind toe instead of none or an extremely dimi-nutive one. Many Lapwings, now referred to the genusLobivanellus, have fleshy or membranous appendages aboutthe head, and most of them have the metacarpal knobpointed and covered Avith horn, constituting a spur. In habits they resemble the Plovers.
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . d of having the middle feathers longer;they have a hind toe instead of none or an extremely dimi-nutive one. Many Lapwings, now referred to the genusLobivanellus, have fleshy or membranous appendages aboutthe head, and most of them have the metacarpal knobpointed and covered Avith horn, constituting a spur. In habits they resemble the Plovers. They belong moreespecially to warm climates, frequent marshy places, plains,and heaths, as well as the shores of rivers, lakes, and thesea. They feed on insects, Crustacea, mollusca, worms, andsometimes seeds ; run with great celerity, fly with rapidity,and utter a mellow, sometimes modulated note. The nest isa slight hollow in the ground; the eggs are four, pyriform,extremely large, and spotted. The young run immediatelyafter birth, and conceal themselves among the stones orherbage. Only one species occurs in Britain, where it is generallydistributed. 133 VANELLUS CRISTATUS. THE CRESTEDLAPWING. PEWIT. PEESEWEEP. TUCU1T. GREEX PLOVER. Fig. 12. Tringa Vanellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 248. Tringa Vanellus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 726. Lapwing. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Vanneau huppe. Vanellus cristatus. Temm. Man. dOm. II. 550. Crested or Green Lapwing. Vanellus cristatus. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. cristatus. Common Lapwing. Flem. Brit. Anim. cristatus. Crested Lapwing. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. cristatus. Bonap. Comp. List, 46. A recurved occipital crest of linear feathers ; upper partof head and fore part of neck black; upper parts green,lower white; tail ivhite, with a broad black band. Male.—The Lapwing, so named on account of its peculiarmode of flight, is one of the most beautiful of our nativebirds, and among the most familiar
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