THE WOODLAHH. 301 



Description. 



able to crack the seed, give it them whole, and a 

 little bread grated among it. \ou may then let 

 them have a fresh turf of grass once or twice a 

 week, and sift some fine dry gravel at the bottom 

 of the cage, shifting it often, that it may not clog 

 their feet: for change of diet, you may sometimes 

 give them a little of the flesh meat. After they 

 have done moulting, you may give them bread, 

 egg, and whole hemp-seed, every other day, and 

 a fresh turf once a week. As the birds are of an 

 hardy nature, this careful management will pre- 

 serve them many years. 



THE WOODLARK. 



THIS bird is of great beauty, both in shape 

 and plume: his breast and belly are of a pale 

 yellowish hair-colour, faintly spotted with black; 

 the back and head are party-coloured, of black 

 and reddish yellow. The cock is flat-headed, 

 and full behind the ears, with a white stroke 

 from each nostril, forming a curve line over 

 the eye, and almost meeting behind the neck ; 

 the whiteness of this line, and its extension 

 behind the neck, are the best signs to dis- 

 tinguish the male: he is full-chested, long 

 from the neck to the shoulder of the wing, nar- 

 row on the vent and rump ; the rump part a 

 dark brown, with a long lightish tail, and the 



