356 
137. 
Woop, 
WO O0-D:LAR K Crag 
they hear or feel a lark hit the net, they ep it 
down, and fo the birds are taken. 
Tottavilla. Ona, 27. Faun. Suec. fp. 211. 
Wil. orn. 204- Ludllerche, Waldlerche 
Raii fyn. av. 69. Kram. 362. 
L’ Alouette de Bois ou le Danis Skov-Lerke, Cimbris 
Cujelier. Brifon av. Ul. Heede-Leker, Lyng-Lreke. 
340. Fab. .20. Jf HOC BrogeR 
Alauda arborea. Lin. ft. Br. Zool. g4. plate Q_f. 3. 
287. Zippa. Scopolz, No. 186. 
HIS bird is inferior in fize to the fky lark, 
and is of a fhorter thicker form; the colors 
are paler, and its note lefs fonorous and lefs vari- 
ed, though not lefs fweet. Thefe and the follow- 
ing characters, may ferve at once to diftinguifh it 
from the common kind: it perches on trees; it 
whiftles like the black-bird. The crown of the 
head, and the back, are marked with large black 
{pots edged with pale reddifh brown: the head is 
furrounded with a whitifh coronet of feathers, reach- 
ing from eye to eye: the throat is of yellowifh 
white, fpotted with black: the breaft is tinged 
with red: the belly white: the coverts of the wings 
are brown, edged with white and dull yellow: the 
quil-feathers dufky ; the exterior edges of the 
three firft white; of the others yellow, and their 
tips blunt and white: the firft feather of the wing 
is fhorter than the fecond; in the common lark it 
is 
