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FEMALE«s 
PLace anpD 
Manners, 
Bie VON ae al EON: LG, men, 
with a blackifh dafh down the fhaft of each feather, which is 
fringed on the edge with rufous: under parts plain yellowith 
white, dafhed on the fides with dufky : quills dufky, with yellow- 
ifh edges: tail feathers much the fame, and a trifle forked: legs 
pale brown. 
The female differs little, except in palenefs of colour, from the 
male. 
This is common in England, but much lefs fo than the laft; 
and in winter unites into large flocks, The female builds the 
neft three or four inches from the ground, on fome tuft of de- 
cayed herbage or dead plant, and lays five or fix eggs. During 
the time of the ben’s fitting, the male is feen entertaining her 
with his (cream, for I will not call it /oxg, fitting on fome bare, 
and often projecting part of the branch of an. adjacent tall tree ;, 
where he may be obferved, all of a heap, every now and then ut- 
tering a tremulous kind of fhriek,. three or four times repeated. 
At the latter end of harveft unite into flocks, and remain fo for 
the moft part during the winter, where they are fhot in numbers, 
or caught in nets ; and, from their fimilar plumage, are fold for 
Larks to the ignorant; and indeed by the better informed often. 
pafs by the name of Bunting Larks. 
Though thefe birds remain the whole year in England, yet we- 
find them named as migratory on the Continent. In France they 
are rarely feen in winter, departing with the Swal/ow *; and are- 
faid to be more plenty about Rome + than elfewhere. They are 
common throughout Germany, the fouthern. parts of Ruf la, Swe 
den, and Denmark, but not in Sibiria f. 
® Tift. des vif.  Olinas $ Mr. Pennant. 
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