The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 328
outh, for the West Indies,went passengers, a lady and her seven lap-dogs, for the passage of each of which shepaid thirty pounds, on the express condition,that they were to dine at the cabin-table, and Lapwing, Bastard Plover, or Pee Wit, (Tringa vanellus, Linn.Le Vanneau, Buff.) s. A clamorous… … This bird is about the size of a pigeon. Itsbill is black; eyes large and hazel; the top ofthe head is black, glossed with green; a tuftof long, narrow feathers issues from the backpart of the head, and turns upwards at the end ; some of them are four inches in length ;the sides of the head and…
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