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thofe which I have feen, there has been a mixture of fome of 

 other colours. In the Leverian Mufeum there is one mixed brown 

 and white, with a pure white belly, and another variegated with 

 white all over, but regularly difperfed throughout the plumage,, 

 imitating the beautiful pencilling of the Wryneck ; and I have 

 in my poffeffion one of thefe birds,, which is wholly of a light 

 cream-colour. 



Var. B. 

 DUSKY L. 



Description. 



i. 

 Var. C. 

 LONG- 

 LEGGED L. 

 Description. 



L'Alouette noire,. Brif. on. iii. p. 340. B.—Bxf. olf. v. p. 22.?— PI, enl. 65c*. 



f. 1. 

 Black Lark, Alb, iii. pi. 51. 



Br. Muf. 



N the bird here defcribed by Albin *, the black, was not- 

 pure, being of a dull reddifh brown, approaching to black, 

 except the hind part of the head, which was dull yellow, and 

 fome of the belly feathers fringed with white. Bill and legs 

 dirty yellow,. 



N Rujfia is found a variety, which has been mentioned to me- 

 by the name of Long-legged.. It is very like the Sky-lark, 



* I am well aware of the circumnance of this and other birds becoming 

 black by feeding on hemp-feed,**, was the cafe in a Goldfinch and Houfe Sparrow a , 

 recorded above under thofe heads; but this accident likewife happens by a 

 caufe lefs artificial, as the bird mentioned by Albin was caught in a net at large 

 among other birds at Highgate. That in the Britijb Mufeum is of a full deep 

 black throughout* 



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