Class II. RED LARK. 



part of the neck are of a pale brown, fpotted with 

 duflcy lines, which on the neck are very faint. The 

 back and rump are of a dirty green ; the former 

 marked in the middle of each feather with black, 

 the latter plain. The coverts of the wings dufky, 

 deeply edged with white. The quil-feathers dufky; 

 the exterior web of the firft edged with white, of 

 the others with a yellowifli green. 



The throat is yellow : the bread of the fame co- 

 lor, marked with large black fpots : the belly and 

 vent-feathers white : on the thighs are a few dusky 

 oblong lines : the tail is dusky : half the exterior 

 and interior web of the outmoft feather is white ^ 

 the next is marked near the end with a fhort white 

 ftripe pointing downwards. The legs are of a very 

 pale brown ; and the claw on the hind toe very 

 fhort for one of the lark kind, which flrongly diC- 

 tinguifhes it from the /// lark. 



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£d-vj. 297. Br. Zoo/. II. 239. Brijpm Suppl. 94... ,^q^ Rei>, 



1MET with this fpecies in the magnificent and 

 elegant Mufeitm of Ashton Lever, Efq; where 

 the lover of Britijh or exotic ornithology, may 

 find delight and inflruftion equally intermixed. 



This fpecies is equal in fize to the common lark. 

 A white line crofles each eye, and another pafies 



beneath. 



