﻿LARK. 



and a little chaff ftrewed about. It is always feen on the ground, 

 and has little or no fong. 



This bird is not peculiar to North America: we hear of it in 

 Germany * alfo. It has been taken at Dantzic, both in the 

 months of April- and December f ; and is in plenty throughout 

 Ruffia and Sibiria J, going northward in fpring. 



387 



La Ceinture de Pretre, ou L'Alouette de Siberie, Buf. olf. v. p. 61— PI. enl. 

 650. f. 2. 



r P H I S is a very beautiful fpecies : length five inches and three 

 quarters. The bill above half an inch long, and of a lead- 

 colour : the forehead, chin and throat, and fides of the head, are 

 yellow : between the eye and bill a black fpot, which pafies un- 

 der the eye, and unites with a larger one beneath it : the top of 

 the head and upper parts of the body are rufous and grey brown, 

 mixed, fpotted with black on the crown : on the breaft is a broad 

 band of black ; from thence to the vent whitifli : the quills are 

 grey, edged with dark grey : the upper tail coverts yellowifh : 

 the tail feathers are almoft black, edged with grey, except the 

 outer ones, which are edged with white : the legs are lead- 

 coloured : the hind claw near half an inch long, and very little 

 bent. 



This inhabits Sibiria, but is not common. 



r 9 . 

 Var. A. 



Description. 



Place* 



» Frifch. f Bift. des olf. 



X Decouv. Ruff. vol. i. p. 102. vol. iv. p. 459, &c> 



D 2 



La 



