The Lapwing, Or Bajlard Plover. Capella five Vannellus.
Numb. LXXIV.
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der the Tail are q f a lovely bright bay, a enipn(w . the middle of the Back and the
the Feathers n e x t them are duiky with a tirttSVfftrfM• , ^ ^
fcapular Feathers are of a delicate ihimng g , middlemoft of the long fca-
Side next the Wings 5 the outermoft Edges of the Tips ot & Mix£urc of&red)
pular Feathers are whiuih i 4 aThe J o or foUr outermoft quill Feathers of the
and £he follow;rtg t0 the eleventh are black, and from the
Wings are blaok With white p 5 , • (i, ar6 more jn order than the fore,
eleventh they are white at Bottom; t . side of the Wing, but is hid by the
moil 1 yet this white doth not aPP^a r ‘" the twenty firft are green; the leffer covert
covert Feathers ; thofe next the y Colours .varioufly intermixed ; the
Feathers are beautified with in' the exterior Web; the
outermoft Feather on each adc is w ue a g roundifh, of an Inch in Length;
Tips Of all the reft are white ; the Bill is black naro^ « M W ! _ but.» Sides reflea.
the upper Mandible a little more pr , Noftnls are oblong, and furniihed with a
ingupwards make a Channel in the middle; t h e Eyes
are hazel coloured. Ihe reet are 10 g • , r rhe Bottom. The Liver is large,
and the outermoft fore T o e i s joined to the 1 G iz z a rd is not fo thick and fleihy as in
divided into two Lobes, with a G a ll®nnd Beetles like to Meal Worms; they are fometimes
granivorous Birds, and therein was found Beetles w’kh ¿reat Spots and
infefted withLice. They lay four or five Heath open
Stroaks of black : They build on the that the Neil
and expofed to view, only laying hatcht inftantly forfakethe Neft, and follow
be not feen ; the young as ^ on J f f l in Gardens in the Summertime,
the old ones like Chickens T h e f e Bndsarevery u Companies as in
deftroying both Worms and Infefts; and in Summer tney ny not r
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