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BOOK PIPIT. 



ROCK LARK. SEA LARK. FIELD LARK. DUSKY LARK. SHORE LARK. 

 SHORE PIPIT. SEA TITLING. 



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 PLATE LXXI. 



Anihus aquations, B ECKSTEIN. GOULD. SELBT. 



" campestris, BEWICK. 



" rupestris, NILLSON. 



" petrosus, FLEMING. JENYNS. 

 Alauda campestris spinoletta, GMELIN. 



" obscura, GMELIN. PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" petrosrt, LINN^AN TRANSACTIONS. 



THE nest is placed in holes or ledges in rocks, generally, but not 

 always, at a low elevation, or on the ground, sheltered by some little 

 projection or eminence. It is made of fine dry grass and marine plants, 

 but is very loosely compacted, the inside being either not at all, or 

 more or less lined with hair, or finer materials of any kind that the 

 bird can procure. 



The eggs, which have very little polish on them, and vary much in 

 appearance, are four or five, and occasionally six in number. They are 

 of a pale yellowish white, or whitish grey colour, sometimes tinged 

 with green, spotted with reddish brown, almost confluent at the larger 

 end; some are wholly, or almost wholly brown, and some wholly greenish 

 grey, with a streak surrounding the base. 



One is a rather dark olive brown, mottled all over with darker and 

 lighter marks, and some of a fulvous aspect. 



A second is pale greenish grey, with a few rather darker marks here 

 and there over the whole surface. 



A third is yellowish green, with a few large marks of darker shades 

 run together about the base, and a few yellowish marks. 



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