TIT-LARK. 

 (Alauda pratensis.) 



AL. viridi-fisca, rectricibus duabus extrorswn albis, linea super" 



ciliari alba. 

 Greenish-brown Lark, with the two outer tail-feathers externally 



white, eyebrows white. 

 Alauda pratensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 287. 2. Lin, Faun. Suec. 



2lO.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 7Q2.Briss. Orn. 3. 343. 3. Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2. 403. 5. 



Spipola altera Aldrovandi. Ray. p. 80. 4. 

 L'Alouette de pres. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 31. pi. 3. Buff. 



PI. Enl. 660. f. 1. 

 Tit-lark. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 395" c.Pen. Brit. Zool. 138. 



Albin. Birds. 1. pi. 43. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 3/4. 5.-~WilL 



Ang. 110. 206. Lenin. Brit. Birds. 3. p. 1Q8. Wale. Syn. 2. 



pi. IQl. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. App. 



Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1. 185. 



THE Tit-lark is about five inches and three 

 quarters in length : its beak is slender and dusky, 

 the base of the under mandible excepted, which is 

 paler : irides hazel : the upper part of the head, 

 and the plumage above, is of a dusky brown ; the 

 edges of the feathers palest : the quills are dusky 

 brown, slightly edged with paler : from each side 

 the under mandible arises a line of dusty, which 

 passes down the sides of the throat ; which, with 

 the under parts of the body, are dirty white : the 

 sides of the neck and breast are marked with 

 oblong dusky spots: tail dusky brown, edged with 

 paler; the outer feather, with the exception of 



