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139. FIELD. 
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FLELD; LA R Ke Gla 
the woodlark it fits on trees; and has a moft 
remarkable fine note, finging in all fituations, 
on trees, on the ground, while it is {porting in the 
air, and particularly in its defcent. This bird with 
many others, fuch as the thrufh, blackbird, willow 
wren, &c. become filent about midfummer, and 
refume their notes in September : hence the interval 
is the moft mute of the year’s three vocal feafons, 
fpring, fummer, and'autumn. Perhaps the birds 
are induced to fing again as the autumnal tempe- 
rament refembles the vernal. It is a bird of an ele- 
gant flender fhape: the length is five inches and 
a half: the breadth nine inches: the bill is black: 
the back and head is of a greenifh brown, fpotted 
with black: the throat and lower part of the belly 
are white: the breaft yellow, marked with oblong 
fpots of black: the tail is dufky; the exterior fea- 
ther is varied by a bar of white, which runs acrofs 
the end and takes in the whole outmoft web. The 
claw on the hind toe is very long, the feet yellow- 
ifh: the fubject ficured in plate P. 1. of the foko 
edition, is a variety with dufky legs, fhot on the 
rocks on the coaft of Caernarvonfbire. 
The Leffer Field Lark. Wil. orn. 207. 
pe fpecies we received from Mr. Plymly. It 
is larger than the ¢¢ lark; the head and hind 
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