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War. A. 
DeEscriPTion, 
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Var. B. 
DESCRIPTION. 
EX 
Var. Cc. 
DescriPTion. 
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the ground *. It is carelefly conftructed, not unlike that of the 
Lark. The female lays four or five greyifh eggs, and in general 
has two broods in a year. Sometimes frequents oat-fields, of 
which it feems very fond, foon growing exceeding fat; and is 
thought fufficiently fo for the table: but never reckoned fo deli- 
cious as when fattened artificially. 
L’Ortolan jaune, Bri/: orn. iii. p. 272. A.— Buf. oif. iv. p. 312. 
Aldrovandus’s firft fort of Yellow-hammer, Will. orn. p. 270. 1. —= Raii 
Syn. p» 94. Noa. 
HIS is the fize of the laft, and is all over of a ftraw-colour, 
except the edge of the wing and the quills, which are 
white: the bill, and legs, reddifh. 
L’Ortolan blanc, Brif. orz. iii. p. 373. B.— Buf, o/. iv. p. 313. 
Hortulanus albus, d/drov. Rai. Syx. p. 94. N° 2.—Will. orn. p.270. N° 2. 
i HIS is wholly white, as pure as that of the Swan. 
L’Ortolan 4 Queue blanche, Bri/. orz. iii. p. 273. C.— Buf. of. iv. p. 514. 
Hortulanus, N° 5. Raié Syn. p. 94.—Will. orn. p. 270. N° 5. 
HIS differs little from the common, except in the tail, 
which is almoft wholly white. 
® In Lorraine among the wheat. Hif. des oi/. 
L’Ortolan 
