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Place. 



LARK. 



white, marked with blackifh fpots on the neck and breaft : the 

 legs are yellowifh. 



This fpecies was fent to Buffon from Provence, where it ufhers 

 in the morn by its fong. The male and female are conftant com- 

 panions, whether in the time of incubation, or in fearch of food; 

 which confifts of caterpillars, grafshoppers, fnails, and fuch like. 

 The above author mentions it as a new fpecies, not before de- 

 fcribed : indeed there has been a Lark brought from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, which differed not materially from this, except in 

 wanting the creft, the under parts more inclined to yellow, and 

 no white either in the wings or tail — differences too trivial to 

 forbid our placing it here, either as a female of that above 

 defcribed, or a young bird* 



26. 



SENEGAL L. 



Description. 



Place. 



L'Alouette hupee du Senegal, Brif. orn. ill. p. 362. N° 10. pi. 19. f. 2. 



La Grifette cm le C.ochevis du Senegal, Buf. oif. v. p. jg.-—PJ. enl. 504. f. 1. 



T E N G T H fix inches and a half. Bill nine lines and a half 

 long, and of an horn-colour : the head is flightly crefted : 

 the colour of the plumage on the upper parts is grey and brown 

 mixed, each feather being brown in the middle, with grey edges : 

 the under parts whitifh, marked with fmall fpots of brown on the 

 throat : the fides and under the wings incline to rufous : the 

 quills are grey brown, with grey edges ; but at the bafe, for two 

 thirds of their length, are rufous within : the two middle tail 

 feathers are grey, the others brown, but the outer one rufous 

 white for nearly the whole breadth ; the next to this has the outer 

 edge of the fame colour : the legs and claws grey. 

 This is found at Senegal. 



BILL 



