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Length nearly 6 inches. 



The tit-lark frequents heaths and moors, and builds 

 its nest of bents and grass, lined with fine grass. 



The female lays eggs of a brownish colour, speckled 

 with rufous-brown. 



6. RUBRA. RED LABK. 



A. obscure fusca, subtus fulvo-rufescens, maculis 

 fuscis varia, genis nigricantibus, superciliis pal- 

 lide rufis. Shaw. 



The red lark is rather superior in size to the sky- 

 lark. 



The bill is dusky above, whitish beneath, except 

 at the point; irides hazel; the upper part of head, 

 hind-part of the neck, and back are rufous brown, 

 each feather a little dusky in the middle ; over the 

 eye is a pale ferruginous streak ; the chin and throat 

 are the same ; the ear-coverts are inclining to dusky ; 

 from the bill under the eye is a narrow dusky line ; 

 the sides of the neck and breast are ferruginous, 

 with dusky spots; the belly and under tail-coverts 

 are ferruginous white ; the greater quill feathers are 

 dusky, slightly edged with yellowish white ; the rest 

 of the quills are deeply margined with rufous ; some 

 of the large coverts the same ; but those immediately 

 impending the secondary quills have whitish tips, 

 making a small bar across the wing; one row also 

 of the smaller coverts are tipped with white, making 



