238 LESSER FIELD LARK. Clafs II. 



in plate P. i. of the folio edition, is a variety with 

 dusky legs, fhot on the rocks on the coafl of Caer- 

 narvon/hire. 



IV. The LESSER FIELD LARK. 



THIS fpecies we received from Mr. Plymfy, 

 and find it the fame with that defcribed by 

 Defer. Mr. Willoughby, page 207. It is larger than the 

 tit-lark •, the head and hind-part of the neck are of a 

 pale brown fpotted with dusky lines, which on the 

 neck are very faint. The back and rump are of a 

 dirty green ; the former marked in the middle of 

 each feather with black, the latter plain. The coverts 

 of the wings dufky, deeply edged with white. The 

 quil-feathers dusky ; the exterior web of the firft 

 edged with white, of the others with a yellowifh 

 green. The throat is yellow : the breaft of the fame 

 color, marked with large black fpots : the belly and 

 vent feathers white : on the thighs are a few dusky 

 oblong lines : the tail is dusky : half the exterior and 

 interior web of the outmoft feather is white •, the next 

 is marked near the end with a ihort white {tripe 

 pointing downwards. The legs are of a very pale 

 brown ; and the claw on the hind toe very fhort for 

 one of the lark kind, which ftrongly diliinguifhes it 

 from the tit- lark. 



V. The 



