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O R D. III. GEN. VIII. LARK. 



SPE. IV. WOOD LARK. 



PI. 88. 



Alauda arborea. Lin. Syfl. I. p. 287. 



L'Alouette de Bois ou le Cujelier. Brif. Orn. III. p. 340. 



The bill of this bird is horn colour: eyes dark brown : creft yellow brown, 

 with long dark dafhes : from the beak to the eye, and under it to the back of 

 the head, the plumage is of a pale colour, almoft white : throat and breaft pale 

 brown, with long markings of black : neck and back yellow brown, with dark 

 oblong markings : moulders grey brown : wing coverts dark brown, with pale 

 yellow brown edges : belly and underparts dull white : quill feathers black : 

 tail dark brown : legs yellowifh : hind claw long, and a little curved. 



This fpecies may be eafily diftinguiflied from all others of this genus, by the 

 exceedingly fhort tail. It is much valued for its foft and pleafing fong, but is a 

 very tender bird, and does not live long in the confinement of a cage. It builds 

 its neft in February, on the ground, in an open part of a wood, having a fouth- 

 ern afpeft, and lays four eggs. It feeds moftly on infe&s and vegetables, and 

 fings delightfully on the branches of trees, on the fides of woods, and near them, 

 frequently in the night. It unites in fmall nights, in hard frofty weather, to 

 eeii for food. 



7 'ie egg is reprefented at Fig. 4, PI. XX. 



