Defer. 



236 W O O D- L A R K. Clafs II. 



II. The WOOD-LARK. 



Tottavilla. Olina 27. Faun. Suec.fp. 21 1. 



Wil. om. 204.. Ludllerche, Waldlerche. Kram 



Raiifyn. a<v. 69. 362. 



L'Alouette de Bois ou le Cuje- Danis Skov-Lerke, Cimbris 



lier. Brijfon av. iii. 340. Heede-Lerke, Lyng-Lerke. 



tab. 20. Jig. 1. Br. 224. 



Alauda arborea. Lin.fcji. 287. Br. Zool. 94. plate Q^f. 3. 



* H I S bird is inferior in fize to the fky-lark, and 

 is of a (horter thicker form ; the colors are 

 paler, and its note lefs fonorous, though not lefs 

 fweet. Thefe and the following characters, which. 

 Mr. Willoughby points out, may ferve at once to dif- 

 tinguifli it from the common kind : it perches on 

 trees ; it whifiles like the black-bird. The crown of 

 the head, and the back, are marked with large black 

 fpots edged with pale reddifh brown : the head is 

 furrounded with a whitiih coronet of feathers, reach- 

 ing from eye to eye : the throat is of yellowifh white 

 fpotted with black : the bread 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 near equal : 

 the tail is black, the outmoft feather is tipt with 

 white : the exterior web, and inner fide of the 

 interior are alfo white ; in the fecond feather, the 

 exterior web only : the legs are of a dull yellow; 

 the hind claw very long. The wood-lark will fing in 



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