RED, AND C A L A N D R A LARK, 293 



Red Lark, jE'i/'z.y. 297- — Br. Zool, i. N" J4.0. — Brijjon, App. 94. — Z.fl//5^»;, u.376. 279, Red, 



L'AIouette aux joues brunes de Penfylvanie, De Buffon, v. 58. — Lev. Mus. 



With a white line above and beneath each eye: thickifh bill: 

 chin and throat whitifli : head, and whole upper part of the 

 body, and coverts, pale ferruginous, fpotted with black : breaft 

 whitifh, with dufky fpots : belly of a dirty white : fide ringed with 

 ruft : tail dufky ; outmofh feathers white; the two next edged with 

 white: legs dufky. When the wing is clofed, fays M.X.' Edwards ■, 

 the third quill from the body reaches to its tip ; a conftant charac- 

 teriftic of the Wagtail genus. 



Inhabits Penfylvania i appears there in Marfi', in its paffage north- Place. 



ward. Found alfo near Loitdon. 



Ed-w. 268. — Latham, ii. 382. 280. CALiNDRA. 



Alauda Calandra, Lin. Sjji. 288. 



La Calandra ou groffe Alouette, De Buffon, v. 49. — PL Enl. 363. — Briffon, iii. 352. 



T With a bill thicker and ftronger than ufual to the genus : from 

 the bill a black line paffes to and beyond the eye ; above and 

 beneath are two others of white, faintly appearing : head, neck, 

 back, and coverts of the wings, reddifli brown, fpotted with black : 

 primaries and tail dun<y, edged with ruft- color : throat white: 

 upper part of the breaft crofled by a narrow black crefcent ; beneath 

 that the breaft is of a pale brown, fpotted with a darker : belly and 

 vent white : tail a little forked : legs of a pale flefh-color. In Size 

 rather fuperior to the Sky-Lark j but the body thicker. It is a fpe- 

 cics allied to the common Bunting. 



Brought from North Carolina ; and firft defcribed as an American Placs. 



bird by Mr. Edwards. Is common in many parts of Europe, efpe- 

 cially in the fouthern. In Jfia it is found about Aleppo, and is pretty- 

 frequent about the Tartarian deferts bordering on the Don and Volga. 



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