a UR Kt 
Alauda obfcura, Ind. Orn. ti. p. 494. 7- 
Alauda pantherana, Gerin. Orz. iv. pl. 375. f. ¥s 
Spipola palufiris, Gerinx, Oru. iv. t. 388, f. 1? 
L’alouette pipi, P/. Ex/. 661. f. 2. 
Sea Lark, # alcot’s Pirds, ii. N° 191. 
Duky Lark, Lewin’s Birds, iti. pl. 94« 
Rock Lark, Lin. Tran/. iv. p. 41. (Montagu) pl.ti.f. 3. the egg. 
HIS fpecies rather exceeds feven inches in length ; and weighs 
from fix to feven drams: the bill is flender, three-fourths of 
an inch long, dufkty, with a darker point: the plumage on the upper 
parts of the bird dufky greenifh afh colour; the middle of each fea- 
ther darker: fore part of the neck and breaft mottled dufky white 
and brownifh afh colour: the chin, and fore part of the neck, dufky 
white ; and the middle of the breaft is like the fore part of the neck, 
but paler: belly dufky yellowifh white: the wings are much the fame 
colour as the back, but edged with a paler colour: the four firft 
prime’ quills are nearly of equal lengths, the fecond a trifle longeft; 
the fecond quills almoft even with the firft at the ends: tail full 
three inches long, even, of much the fame colour as the quills; the 
outer feather has all the outer web and half the inner cinereous 
white; the next whitifh at the tip: legs brown; hind claw crooked, 
no longer than the toe, which is the fame length as the outer one 
before. 
This, till within a few years paft, has not been fufficiently difcri- _ 
-minated. I faw it firft among the preferved birds of the late Mr. 
Leman, where it was marked as a finoular variety*. Mr. Walcot 
and Mr. Lewin afterwards found it in the marfhes of Kent; and Co- 
lonel Montagu likewife met with it in more places than one, in fimilar 
fituations. This gentleman. obferyes, that it is only to be feen on 
® I fulpeét it to be the variety of the Tit/ark, in Br. Zool, fol. pl. P. i. 
Ge2 the 
Duscrivrion, 
