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Title: Twenty-five photographs (printed in platinotype)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Webster, G. Watmough Newstead, Robert, 1859-1947 Grosvenor Museum (Chester, Cheshire)
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: Chester: (Grosvenor Museum)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Rarely indeed, except when flushed by a dog, are these birds seen on
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Lapwing or Peewit ( Vanellus vulgaris) BECHSTEIN, MALE, FEMALE, NEST, EGGS, AND YOUNG. HE long and broadly rounded primaries of this species give these birds their peculiar-shaped wings. The non-naturalist would scarcely imagine that thefemale, which is standing on the meadow-grass, had a wing-expansion equal to thatof the male; yet such is the case. The only appreciable difference between the sexesis that the female generally has a smaller crest and is not so bright in colour.Crouching beneath some overhanging grass, in the foreground on the left, is ayoung bird in down, a few days old. The nest is a mere hollow lined with a fewblades of grass and some very short rushes collected from numerous stumps of thesame, which had been inadvertently pulled up by cattle and scattered over themeadow land. The latter, from their reddish-brown bases, rendered it much moredifficult to find the eggs. Collected on the Eaton Estate, and presented by Mr. R. J. Smith.

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