SHORE LARK. AAD 
brood ig reared each season. The food of the Shore Lark 
consists of grass seeds, the blossoms of dwarf plants, and 
insects. It is an expert catcher of flies, following insects on 
wing to a considerable distance, and now and then betaking 
itself to the sea-shore to search for minute shell-fish or 
crustacea.” 
Captain James Ross, in his Appendix to the Narrative of 
the Second Voyage of Sir John Ross to the Arctic Regions, 
says, “* One Shore Lark shot by us near Felix Harbour, 
agreed well with the descriptions of authors. Two others 
were all that were seen by us; it is therefore but rarely 
met with above the seventieth degree of latitude.” 
The adult male has the beak bluish horn colour, almost 
black ; the irides hazel; the lore, or space between the 
beak and the eye, and the cheeks, black ; the ear-coverts, 
and a streak over the eye, yellow; the forehead also 
yellow, bounded on the top of the head by a broad black 
transverse band, which ends on each side with a few 
elongated and pointed black feathers, these the birds can 
elevate at pleasure ; the occipital portion of the head, the 
nape, back, and upper tail-coverts, hair brown, the central 
line of the feathers being darker than the edges; the back 
of the neck and the smaller wing-coverts tinged with red, 
the latter tipped with white; the greater wing-coverts and 
tertials dark brown, with light brown margins ; wing- 
primaries and secondaries dark brown, with very narrow 
light-coloured edges; the two centre tail-feathers dark 
brown, with light brown margins; the others pitch black, 
except part of the edge of the outer web of the outside 
feather on each side, which is white; chin, throat, and sides 
of the neck, primrose yellow ; upper part of the breast with 
a gorget of black; the lower part of the breast, the belly, and 
under tail-coverts, dull white; flanks tinged with reddish 
