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dusky, margined with a light reddish brown (the head 

 feathers form a crest) a white ring runs round the 

 head ; the breast is tinged with red ; the belly is 

 whitish ; the tail is black, edged with white. 

 Length 6 inches. 



" The wood-lark soars to a great -height, and flies in 

 irregular circles, singing the whole time with little inter- 

 mission, for an hour together. (Montagu") " Sings in 

 hot summer nights on the wing, night long. (White.)' 9 



It builds in march. 



The female lays 4 brown eggs, mottled with dusky 

 and cinereous. 



3. OBSCURA. SHAW. \ 

 PETROSUS. MONTAGU. J R 



A. olivaceo-fusca nigricante varia subtus flavicans, 

 lateribus colli pectoreque maculis fuscescentibus, 

 rectrice extima dimidiato, secunda apice albo- 

 cinerascente. Shaw, 



The length is 6i inches ; the weight 7 drams. 



The bill is dusky ; irides hazel ; the upper part of 

 the head, back of the neck, and tail-coverts are of 

 a dark brown; the back and scapulars are of the 

 same colour, obscurely marked with dusky strokes ; 

 above the eye, and beneath the ear is a lightish co- 

 loured stroke ; the throat is whitish ; the breast and 



