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O R D. III. GENUS VIII. LARK. 



Bill, (lender, ftraight, and {lightly curved at the end. 

 Nostrils, at the bafe of the bill, and moftly covered. 

 Tongue, pointed, and divided at the end. 

 Toes, divided to their origin : the hind claw very long. 



SPECIES I. GREATER CRESTED LARK. 



PI. 85. 



Alauda criftata. Lin. Syft. I. p. 288. 



L'alouette hupee ou le cochevis. Brif. Orn. III. p. 357. 



The bill in this fpecies is ftout and almoft ftraight, the upper mandible dark 

 horn colour, the under yellowifh: eye rich brown: creft large, and tufted, 

 confiding of many more feathers than in the fky lark : creft, back, and fhoul- 

 ders, of a pale yellow chefnut colour, dafbed with dark brown oblong mark- 

 ings ; wing coverts brownilh black, edged with pale chefnut brown ; the fide 

 of the head chefnut colour : throat and breaft pale yellow, flightly fpotted with 

 black: belly and under part paler, without any fpots: middle tail feathers dull 

 brown, the outer ones edged with white : legs pale brown, hind claw long. 



This is a larger bird than the iky lark, of a paler colour, and the tail is but a 

 little longer than the wings, which in the Iky lark extends two inches beyond 

 them. This lark frequents the marfties, moftly making its neft in a tuft of 

 grafs, and lays four very pale coloured eggs. In manners it greatly refembles 

 the common bunting, frequently refting on a poft or rail, whence it rifes up a 

 little height, finging a very pleafant ftiort fong, and ufually returning to the fame 

 place again. This is a plentiful fpecies, affembling together in large flights 

 with the fky lark in fevere weather, to go in queft of food. The egg is repre- 

 fented PI. XX. Fig. 1. 



