360 CRESTED LARK. Class 1 



beneath. The bill is thick : the chin and thr. 

 whitifli : the head, neck, back, and coverts of the 

 wings of a rufty brown, fpotted with black: breaft 

 whitilh, with dusky fpots : belly of a dirty white : 

 the middle feather of the tail black edged with 

 brown: the two exterior white : legs of a pale 

 brown. 



Hiis bird is common to the neighbourhood of 

 London^ to North America, and to the South of 

 Europe -, but with us is rare. Mr. Edwards firft 

 difcovered it : he remarks, that when the wing is 

 gathered up, the third primary feather reaches to 

 the tip of the firft. 



^KEST- Alauda criftata minor. JIdr. La petite alouette hupee 

 ED. a'v. II. 371. BriJ/on a-v. III. 361. 



Wil. orn. 209. Br. ZdqL 95. 



Raii fyn. an;, 69. 



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THIS fpecies we find in Mr. Rafs hiftory of 

 Englijh birds ; who fays it is found in Tork- 

 jhire, and gives us only this brief defcription of it, 

 from Aldrovandus: it is like the greater crefted 

 lark, but much lefs, and not fo brov;n •, that it hath 

 a confiderable tufc on its head for the fmallnefs of 

 its body ; and that its legs are red. We never faw 

 this kind •, but by Mr. Bolton's lift of Torkjhire 

 birds, which he favored us with, we are informed 



it is in plenty in that country. 



^ ^ . Slender 



