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SKY Le A® BR K.*> Grae 
edged with white, that of the others with reddifh 
brown: the upper part of the breaft yellow fpotted 
with black : the lower part of the body of a pale 
yellow: the exterior web, and half of the inte- 
rior web next to the fhaft of the firft feather of the 
tail are white ; of the fecond only the exterior web; 
the reft of thofe feathers dufky; the others are 
dufky edged with red; thofe in the middle deep- 
ly fo, the reft very flightly: the legs dufky: foles 
of the feet yellow: the hind claw very long and 
{trait. 
This and the wood lark are the only birds that 
fing as they fly; this raifing its note as it foars, and 
lowering it till it quite dies away as it defcends. 
It will often foar to fuch a height, that we are 
charmed with the mufic when we lofe fight of the 
fonefter ; it alfo begins its fong before the earli- 
eft dawn. Milton, in his Allegro, moft beautifully 
expreffes thefe circumftances: and Bp. Newton ob- 
ferves, that the beautifull fcene that Alton ex- 
hibits of rural chearfulnefs, at the fame time gives 
us a fine picture of the regularity of his life,: and 
the innocency of his own mind; thus he de- 
{cribes himfelf as in a fituation 
To hear the lark begin his flight, 
And finging flartle the dull night, 
From his watch tower in the kkies, 
Till the dappled dawn doth rife. 
It 
