TAI. 
CRrestT- 
ED, 
: 
CRESTED LARK. Crass it 
beneath. The bill is thick: the chin and throat 
whitifh: the head, neck, back, and coverts of the 
wings of a ru{ty brown, fpotted with black: breatt 
whitifh, with dusky fpots: belly of a dirty white: 
the middle feather of the tail black edged with 
brown: the two exterior white : legs of a pale 
brown. 7 oN fs | 
This bird is common to the neighbourhood of 
London, to North America, and to the South of 
Europe; but with us is rare. Mr. Edwards firft 
difcovered it: he remarks, that when the wing is 
eathered up, the third primary feather reaches to 
the tip of the firft. 
Alauda criftata minor. 4dr. La petite alouette hupée. 
av. Il. 371. Brifin av. Ul. 361. 
Wil. orn. 209. Br. Zool. 95. 
Raii fyn. av. 69. 
ie fpecies we find in Mr. Ray’s hiftory of 
Englifh birds; who fays it is found in York- 
feire, and gives us only this brief defcription of it, 
from Aldrovandus: it is like the greater crefted 
lark, but much lefs, and not fo brown; that it hath 
a confiderable tuft on its head for the fmallnefs of 
its body; and that its legs are red. We never faw 
this kind; but by Mr. Bolton’s lift of York/bire 
birds, which he favored us with, we are informed 
it is in plenty in that country. 
Slender 
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