2 4 o GRASSHOPPER LARK. Clafs IT. 



Mdrovandus : it is like the greater crefted lark, but 

 much lefs, and not fo brown ; that it hath a confider- 

 able 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 Torkfhire birds, which he 

 favoured us with, we are informed it is in plenty 

 in that country, 



VII. The, GRASSHOPPER LARK. 



Tit-lark that fings like a Grafs- Ray's letters 108. 



hopper. Wil. orn. 209. Alauda fepiaria, L'Alouette d'e 



Alauda minima locufhe voce. Buiffon. Brijfon a<v. iii. 347. 



Locuftell.a D. John/on. Alauda trivalis. Lin.fyji. 288. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 70. Br. Zoo/. 95. plate Q^ f ■ 5. 



/ TT V HIS bird we received out of Shropfljire : it is 

 -^ the fame with that Mr. Ray defcribes as having 

 the note of the grafshopper, but louder and fhriller. 

 When it fings it fits on the higheft branch of a bum, 

 with its mouth open and ftrait up, and its wings dis- 

 heveled : its fibilous note is obferved to ceafe about 

 the latter end of July : it is far lefs than the tit-lark. 

 Defer. The bill is very (lender, of a dusky color : the 

 head, and whole upper part of the body is of a 

 greenifa brown, fpotted with black : the quil-feathers 

 dusky, edged with an olive brown : the tail is very 

 long, compofed of twelve (harp pointed feathers ; the 

 two middlemoft are the longeft, the others on each 

 fide grow gradually fhorter. The under fide of the 

 body is of a dull yellowifh white, darkeft about the 

 bread : the legs are of a dirty white : the hind claw 

 (horter, and more crooked, than is uflial in the lark 



kind. 



VIII. The 



