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ALAUDA TRIVIALIS, 



SysL Nat. 288. 



GRASSHOPPER-LARK, OR WARBLER, 



PLATE LXXIII. 



IN ot having a specimen of this bird in my possession, 

 my figure on the plate was copied from a drawing, done 

 by my good friend Mr. Latham of Dartford, author of 

 the General Synopsis of Birds, in 7 vols. 4to.; and the 

 Index Ornithologicus, in 2 vols.; the most complete 

 work on birds that has hitherto appeared in this or any 

 other language, whose description of the species under 

 notice I here subjoin. 



Size, small ; length, between five and six inches : 

 bill, dusky ; between the bill and eyes, white ; the 

 " colour of the upper parts of the body, greenish brown, 

 " each feather dusky in the middle. Under parts, yel- 

 " lowish white, with a dusky tinge on the breast ; tail, 

 " wedge-shaped, rather long, the outer tips of the fea- 

 " thers rather pale ; legs, dusky-white ; the hind claw, 

 short, and sufficiently crooked to prove that it does 

 not belong to the Lark genus, among which it has been 

 placed by all authors before Mr. Pennant." See La- 

 tham's General Synopsis of Birds, vol. 4, page 493. 





