154 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
there is a light streak over the eye; the ear-coverts 
and cheeks are brown and light yellowish brown 
mixed; feathers of the back and tail-coverts dark 
brown in the centre, margined with lighter brown ; 
wing-coverts dull brown, the greater slightly mar- 
gined with lighter brown; quills dusky brown, the 
tertials more or less margined with a lighter shade; 
the tail-feathers the same, except the two outside 
ones on each side, the outer of which is white, with 
a long streak of brown on the inner web, and the 
next has a longitudinal streak of white on the outer 
web; the neck and throat a dull whitish brown, 
slightly speckled with dark brown; the breast the 
same, tinged with yellowish brown, especially on the 
sides, and spotted with dark brown; belly and under 
tail-coverts nearly white; legs, toes and claws brown, 
the hind claw very long. The female is rather darker 
in colour than the male. Varieties of the Sky Lark 
are not uncommon: they are generally lighter than 
the ordinary plumage, inclining to buff or occa- 
sionally white. 
The eggs vary in size—Meyer says from ten lines 
to an inch in length: the commonest colour appears 
to be a dirty white ground, much smeared and 
spotted with olive-brown, or more distinctly speckled 
with reddish brown: these latter specimens, in my 
collection, are the smallest. 
Woop Lark, Alauda arborea. The Wood Lark is 
by no means so common in this county as the Sky 
