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382 ' GRASSHOPPER LARK. Crass II 
dufky ftreaks : over each eye a line of pure white, 
over that another of black : cheeks brown r" 
throat, breaft, and belly white ; the two laft tinged 
with yellow: hind part of the neck and back of a 
reddifh brown: the back fpotted with black: co- 
verts of the tail tawny: coverts of the wings 
dufky, edged with pale brown: quil-feathers duf- 
ky: tail brown, cuneiform : forming a circle when ~ 
fpread: legs dufky. 3 i sie a, Oe 
It is a moft entertaining polyglot, or mocking 
bird; fitting concealed in willows or reeds, in a 
pleafing but rather hurrying manner, it imitates the 
{wallow, the fky-lark, the houfe-fparrow, Gc. : 
‘se fings all night, and feems to leave us before 
winter. 
¥56. Grass- Tit-lark, that fings like a Alauda fepiaria, L’Alouete 
HOPPER. Graishopper. Wil. ora de Buiffon. Brifon av. Il. 
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Aleusa minima locuftez voce. Piep eg mene Lark). | 
Locuftella, D. Fobn/on. Frifch. I 
Raii fyn. av. 70+ Alauda cee Lin. fyft. 288. 
Ray’s Letters, 108. Br. Zool. 95. plate Q. f. 5. 
HIS bird was received out of Shropfbire : it 
is the fame with that Mr. Ray defcribes as 
having the note of the grafshopper, but louder and: » 
© ae thriller. “It is a moft artful bird, will fculk in the 
middle, and thickeft part of the hedge, and will » 
keep running along for a hundred yards together, 
nor can it be forced out but with the greateft _ 
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