﻿j68 LARK. 



I, Alauda arvenfis, Lin. Syji. i. p. 2S7. \.-—Faun Suet. 20g.— Seep, ann. i. 



+■ SKY-LARK. N u 84.— .Sr««. N° Z2i.— Muller, p. 28. N' z%^—Fri/cb. pi. 15. f. 1. 



—Kram. el. p. 362. 2. 

 L'Alouette, £«/. ors. iii. p. 335. N° l.—Buf. oif. v. p. 1. pi. 1. — 



PL en!. 363. f. 1. 

 Field-lark, or Sky-lark, Rati Syn. p. 69. A. \.—WHL orit. zoi*—Albin., i.. 

 pi. 41. — Br. Zoo/, i. N° 136. pi. 55. — Arc!. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. ^THE length of this bird is about feven inches, and k is a 

 , fmall matter bigger than the Houfe Sparrow in the body. 

 The bill is above half an inch long, and dufky - T the under man- 

 dible yellowilh : the top of the head reddifh brown, the middle 

 of each feather black ; the hind part inclines to afh, and is 

 plain; the chin whitifh : on the upper parts of the body the fea- 

 thers are reddifh brown, with the middle dark brown, and the 

 edges very pale : the fore part of the neck rufous white, dafhed 

 with blackifh : from the breaft to the vent yellowilh white : quills 

 brown, with the outer edges yellowilh, whitifh towards the tip :. 

 the two middle feathers of the tail are blackifh, with rufous grey 

 margins > the reft not much unlike in colour, but the fourth 

 has a white margin, the fifth white on the outer web, and the 

 outmoft the fame, and on the inner web alfo> near the tip : the 

 legs are dufky ; the claws blackifh, the hind one long and ftrait.. 

 The male exceeds the female in fize. 

 Place and Thefe birds are very plenty in England, and mod probably 



throughout the old continent, as we hear of them: in Norway* 

 Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Greece * y and at the Cape, of 



* Brunnich.—Faun. Suec. p. -°j(>.—Frifch.—Buffcn.—OUna need. p. 12.— 

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