358 F I E L D L A R K. Class 11. 



the woodlark it fits on trees; and has a mofl: 

 remarkable fine note, finging in all fituations, 

 on trees, on the ground, while it is fporting in the 

 air, and particularly in its defcent. This bird with 

 many others, fuch as the thrufli, blackbird, willow 

 ^ wren, &c. become filent about midfijmmer, and 

 refijme their notes in September: hence the interval 

 is the mod mute of the year's three vocal feafons, 

 fpring, fijmmer, and autumn. Perhaps the birds 

 are induced to fing again as the autumnal tempe- 

 Descrip. rament refembles the vernal. It is a bird of an ele- 

 gant flender fhape : the length is five inches and 

 a half: the breadth nine inches : the bill is black ; 

 the back and head is of a greenifh brown, fpotted 

 with black : the throat and lower part of the belly 

 are white : the bread yellow, marked with oblong 

 fpots of black : the tail is dulky ; the exterior fea- 

 ther is varied by a bar of white, which runs acrofs 

 the end and takes in the whole outmoft web. The 

 claw on the hind toe is very long, the feet yellow- 

 ifli: the fubjed figured in plate P. i. of the folio 

 edition, is a variety with duiky legs, fhot on the 

 rocks on the coaft of Caernarvojt/hire. 



"o. Fa E L D. The LefTer Field Lark. JVil. orn, 207. 



Descrip. 'T^HIS fpecies we received from Mr. Plymly. It 

 -*• is larger than the tit lark j the head and hind 



part 



