Class II. LESSER CRESTED LARK. 487 



Alauda. cristatella. A. cristata, Alauda cristata minor. Aldr 8. Lesser 



corpore supra fusco subtus av. ii. 371. Crested. 



albicante, remigibus rectrici- JVil. om. 209- 



busque fuscis, pedibus subru- Rati Syn. av. 69. 



bris. Lath. Ind. om. 499. id La petite alouette hupee. Bris- 



Syn. iv. 391. son av. in. 36l. 



Alauda cristatella. Gm. Lin. Le Lulu. Hist, d'ois. v. 74. 



797- PI. Enl. 303. /. 2. 



Br. Zool. 95. 



JlHIS species we find in Mr. Rays history of 

 English birds ; who says it is found in York- 

 shire, and gives us only this brief description of 

 it, from Aldrovandus. That it is like the greater 

 crested lark, but much less, and not so brown; 

 that it hath a considerable tuft on its head for the 

 smallness of its body ; and that its legs are red. 

 We never saw this kind ; but by Mr. Bolton s 

 list of Yorkshire birds, which he favored us with, 

 we are informed it is plentiful in that country. 



" Mr. Lewin once showed me a lark, which 

 he supposed to be this. It resembled the sky- 

 lark, but had the tail only two inches and a 

 half long ; the wings approaching to within three 

 quarters of an inch of the end of it. The total 

 length of the bird was six inches and three quar- 

 ters. It certainly was not unlike the field* spe- 



* Mr. Montagu says, there is great reason to believe it is 

 merely the Field Lark of this work. Ed. 



