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



SPE. VI. GRASSHOPPER LARK. 

 PI. 90. 



Alauda trivialis. Lin. Syft. I. p. 33 1. 



In this bird the beak is long, flender, and of a dark olive colour : the head 

 and the whole upper part of the body are of a dull olive brown, darned with 

 faint black markings : throat and bread pale olive colour, with a few fpots or 

 ftreaks of a dull brown : belly yellowiih white : tail long, and round, at the end 

 of a dull black colour, and the two outer feathers edged with white : legs pale 

 reddifh brown. 



This fpecies is common to the fea fhores and marines near large rivers, and 

 is a conftant refident near the place where it breeds, not uniting in flocks like 

 the other larks in fevere weather to go in queft of food. It is a dull folitary 

 fpecies, ringing very little. In the fpring the male has a note much like the 

 chirp of the great green grafs-hopper in a fummer's evening. It feeds chiefly 

 on water infeds. 



For the egg, fee PI. XXI. Fig. 2. 



