^^6 W O O D L A R K. Class II. 



they hear or feel a lark hit the net, they drop it 

 down, and lb the birds are taken. 



137. Wood. Tottavilla. Oh'na, 27. 

 Wil. orn. 204. 

 Raiijyn. a'u. 6g. 

 L' Alouctte de Bols ou le 



Cujelier. Brifon a-v. III. 



340. Tab. 20. fig. I. 

 Alauda arborea. Lin. fyfi. 



287. 



Faun. Suec. fp» 211. 

 Ludllerche, Waldlerche 



Kram. 362. 

 Danis Skov-Lerke , Cimhris 



Heede-Leker, Lyng-Lreke. 



Br. 224. 

 Br. Zool. 94. plate Q_f' 3. 

 Zippa. Scopoli, No. 186. 



THIS bird is inferior in fize to the /ky lark, 

 and is of a fhorter thicker form ; the colors 

 are paler, and its note kfs fonorous and lefs vari- 

 ed, though not lefs fweet. Thefe and the follow- 

 ing chara6ters, may ferve at once to diftinguifh it 

 from the common kind : it perches on trees ; it 

 whittles like the black-bird. The crown of the 

 head, and the back, are marked with large black 

 fpots edged with pale reddifh brown : the head is 

 furrounded with a whitlfh coronet of feathers, reach- 

 ing from eye to. eye : the throat is of yellowifh 

 white, fpotted with black : the bread is tinged 

 with red: the belly white: the coverts of the wings 

 are brown, edged with white and dull yellow : the 

 quil-feathers dufl<:y •, the exterior edges of the 

 three firfl white ; of the others yellow, and their 

 tips blunt and white : the firfl: feather of the wing 

 is fhorter than the fccond -, in the common lark it 



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