BRITISH BIRDS. 187 



THE ROCK LARK. 



- \iithus * {(juaticnsy Bechst. Pipit spionccllc, Temm.) 



THIS bird is six inches and seven-eighths in 

 length, and eleven inches and three - eighths in 

 breadth. The bill is rather slender; irides hazel; 

 a pale streak extends from the upper part of the 

 beak over the eyes, and a dark one underneath; 

 the plumage on the head, neck, back, wings, ter- 

 tials, and tail, looks altogether of a deep olive 

 brown, but on a nearer inspection, each feather is 

 dark in the middle, and lighter towards the edges ; 

 but the lower part of the back is not clouded, being 

 more uniformly pale olive, or greenish brown; the 

 two outside feathers of the tail are brownish white 

 the whole length of their outer margins, and the 

 inner web is the same, about half way from the 

 end. In the above figure, which was taken from 

 a stuffed specimen, the tertial feathers were nearly 

 the length of the quills, which latter are narrowly 



