﻿37$ LARK. 



defcription : round the head is a kind of wreath, of a paler co- 

 lour, at lead from eye to eye backwards, which is very confpi- 

 cuous j indeed in the Sky-lark there is the appearance of fuch 

 an one, but in a much lefs degree : in the Wood-lark the firfi: 

 quill feather is fhorter than the fecond, but in the Sky-lark it is 

 nearly equal. The legs in the Wood-lark are more inclined to 

 flefh-colour, and the hind claw, though very long, is fomewhat 

 incurvated. 



Place and This bird is not in near fo great plenty as the firft-defcribed, 



Manners. . . . 



and differs from it much in refpecl to manners : it perches upon 



trees, which the other is never known to do ; like that, it fings 

 as it flies, but is likewife accuftomed to fing in the nights, and 

 often fo like the Nightingale as to be miftaken for that bird i 

 not but it will alfo fing while perched on a branch. It builds 

 on the ground, laying five dufky eggs, blotched with brown, 

 moft fo at the biggeft end, The nefl compofed, like that of the 

 laft, of dried grafs, &c. lined with foft hair. It builds very 

 early, the young ones, in fome feafons, being ready to fly before 

 the end of March ; in this having much the ftart of the Sky- 

 lark, which does not begin to build till April. Both of them 

 make two nefts in a year. 



They are fuppofed to be a general inhabitant throughout 

 Europe, as the different fynonyms will teftify. It was met with 

 by our late voyagers at Kamtfchatka *. 



* Ellis'i Nar. vol. ii. p. 229. 



L'Alouette 



