LESSER-CRESTED LARK. 505 



ance of a predaceous bird, when they fall like a 

 stone : they are most abundant in the more open 

 and highest cultivated situations abounding in 

 corn, being but seldom seen in extensive moors at 

 a distance from arable land : they place their nest 

 on the ground amongst grass or corn, between two 

 clods of earth ; it is composed of dried grass and 

 other vegetable substances, lined with very fine 

 dry grass : the female lays four or five dirty white 

 eggs, blotched and spotted with brown ; she has 

 generally two broods in the year. 



LESSER-CRESTED LARK. 

 (Alauda cristatella.) 



AL. capite cristato, corpore supra Jusco subtus albicante, remigi- 



- bus rectricibusque jiiscis , pcdibus subrubris. 



Lark with a crested head, the body above fuscous, beneath 

 whitish, with the quills and tail-feathers brown, and feet red- 

 dish. 



Alauda cristatella. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 499. 26. 



Alauda nemorosa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 797. 



Alauda cristata minor. Rail. Syn. p. 69. A. 5. Briss. Orn. 3. 

 361. 9. 



Le Lulu. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ols. 5. /4.Biif. PL Enl. 503. 

 f.2. 



Crested Lark. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1'. 1-41. 



Lesser-crested Lark. Will. Ang. p. 207. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 

 391. 24. Lcivin. Brit. Birds. 3. 9. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 



