﻿R K. 



37* 



but larger, and ftands higher on its legs j it never rifes, but fings 

 fitting on the ground. 



This is found only on the Mongolian frontiers *. Place. 



L'Alouette noire a Dos fauve, Buf. oif. v. p. 23, 

 Alouette noire de la Encenada, PL enl. 738. f. 2. 



HP H I S is much lefs than the Sky-lark, meafuring fcarcely 

 five inches. The bill half an inch ; the upper mandible 

 a little notched near the tip : the head, bill, legs, throat, fore 

 part of the neck, under part of the body, and upper tail coverts, 

 Mackifh brown: quills and tail fomewhaf deeper, the outer fea- 

 ther ohe laft edged with rufous : hind part of the neck, the 

 -whole of the back, and fcapulars, of a rufous orange : the leffer 

 and middle wing coverts blackifh edged with fulvous. 

 This came from Buenos Ayrts. 



RUFOUS- 

 BACKtiD L. 



Description. 



Place. 



-Alauda arborea, Lin. Syft. i. p. 287. N° 3. — Faun. Suec. 211.' — Scop. am:, i. », 



N° 186.— Brun. p. 224.— Kram. el. p. 362. 5.— Mailer, p. 28. N° 231. +■ WOOD LI 

 —Olin. uc. p. 27. 

 L'Alouette de Bois, ou le Cujelier, Brif. orn. ill. p. 340. N° 2. pi. 20. f. 1. 



— Buf. oif. v. p. 25. — PL enl. 660. f. 2. 

 Wood-lark, Rail Sjn. p. 69. A. 2. — Will. orn. p. zo\.-—AlUn. i. pi. 42.— 

 Br. Zoel. i. N° itf.—Ara. Zool. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



* g ' H I S is not fo large as the Sky-lark, is of a fhorter and Description. 



thicker fhape, and meafures three quarters of an inch lefs in 

 length: the weight one ounce. The colours are in general paler 

 than in that bird, but do not differ fufficiently to need a feparate 



* Mr. Pennant. 



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