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tail are brown, mixed with darker brown, the laft colour poffeffing 

 the middle of each feather: the chin and throat are orange ; from 

 thence to the vent yellowifh white, inclining rnoft to yellow near 

 the vent : over the eye is a yellowifh ftreak, and beneath, on the 

 ear, a dufky one : four of the outer tail feathers are white at the 

 ends, but irregularly fo ; for the outer one is white for near an 

 inch, but the fourth only at the tip : the legs are dufky : the toes 

 pretty long : the hind claw above half an inch in length, and a 

 little bent. 



This I defcribed from a fpecimen in the Leverian Mufeum, 

 which I take to be a female; for I find the males differ a little. 

 Thefe have the yellow on the throat bordered with black all 

 round j the ftripe over the eye orange, or deep yellow; the 

 breaft compofed of a mixture of brown, grey, and pale yellow ; 

 and the bejly and fides of a rufous orange colour : the greater 

 quills are edged with yellow, and the lefier with grey. 



Buffon mentions having feen two females which had the throat 

 of a pale rufous colour, and the breaft fpotted with brown. 



Thefe birds inhabit the Cape of Good Hope, where they are not 

 uncommon. 



Place; 



Alauda alpeftris, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 289. N° iQ.-*-Georgi Reife, p. 173. 

 L'AIouette de Virginie, Brif. orn. iii. p. 367. N° 12. 

 Le Haufe-col noir, ou L'AIouette de Virginie, Buf. oif. v. p. jj. 

 Schnee-lerche, Frifcb. pi. 16. 

 The Lark, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 32. 

 Shore Lark, Phil. Tranf. vol. lxii. p. 398.—^-^. Zool. 

 Br. Mu/. Lev. Ma/l 



g I Z E and fliape of the Sky-lark : length fix inches and a half. 



The bill feven inches, and black : the upper parts of the body 



VoL - H- ^D reddifh 



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+■ SHORE tV 



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