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■top of the head, neck, fboulders, and back, cinereous, with a dafh 

 of green: the bread and belly white: the throat fpotted: the 

 quills dufky, with pale edges: the tail three inches long ; the 

 feathers very dark ; the two outmoft on each fide have the 

 outer w«bs and tips above half-way white : the legs are black, 

 and the hind claw very long. 



This is commonly fold at Venice, among other birds, in the Place akd 

 markets ; and by Linnaus is fuppofed to be a different fpecies Observations. 

 from the former; but Brijfon unites all the fynonyms quoted by 

 him, tending to prove his opinion to the contrary, and that both 

 thefe laft are varieties of each other; but the moft material dif- 

 ference is in the tail feathers above-mentioned, and the quills, 

 which are much darker, and the colour of the bill and legs. — In 

 this I am not capable of deciding, having never feen the bird. 



Scopoli obferves, that they build in Carniola, in moift places ; 

 about which fome of them remain the whole of the winter * in 

 mild feafons. 



L'Alouette huppee de la Cote de Malabar, Son. Fey. Ind. Vol. ii. p. 203. MALABAR. L 

 pi. 113. f. 1. 



if ENGTH five inches and three quarters. The bill black: Description. 



the feathers of the crown of the head are brown, tipped with , 

 white, and are long enough to form a creft : thofe of the neck 

 pale rufous, marked with a ftreak of black down the fhafts, 

 the lower part broaden: : the throat and belly rufous white : 



* Said to be common at Worone/ch, and about the river Don, in winter.— 

 Decowv. Ruf. vol, i. p. 249. 



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