539 



MEADOW-LARK. 

 (Alauda campestris.) 



AL. rectricibus fuscis, inferiori medietaie, exceptis intermediis 



duabus albis, gula pectorequejlavescente. 

 Lark with brown tail-feathers, the base half, except of the two 



middle ones, white ; the throat and breast yellowish. 

 Alauda campestris. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 288. 4. -Lin. Faun. Suec. 



W.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.794. Briss. Orn. 3.34Q. 5. Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2. 405. 12. 

 Alauda spinolette. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 288. 7. Gmel. Syst. Nat'. 



1. 794. 4. 



La Spipolette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 43. 

 Meadow-lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 378. 1O. 



THIS equals the Tit-lark in size : the upper 

 mandible of its beak is dusky, the under one is 

 flesh-coloured: the upper parts of the plumage 

 are greyish olive brown : over each eye is a white 

 stripe : the under parts of the body are dirty yel- 

 lowish white, the lower parts of the neck and 

 breast being striped with longitudinal spots of 

 dusky : the outer tail-feather white half way from 

 the tip on the inner web, and entirely so on the 

 outer ; the next with a small spot of that colour 

 on the tip ; all the rest of the tail but the two 

 middle feathers, which are grey brown, are dusky: 

 the legs and claws grey brown. 



This species is common in many parts of Italy 

 and in Carniola: it affects damp and sheltered 

 places. 



