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



SPE. VIII. FIELD LARK. 

 PI. 92. 



Alauda Campeftris. Lin. Syft. I. p. 288. 



The head and beak of this bird are very flender : the bill long, and of a dark 

 olive colour : the head and the whole upper part of a greenifh brown colour, 

 the edges of the feathers lighter, with dull black middles : the under parts are 

 yellowifh white: the throat is (lightly fpotted with dull black j on the breait 

 the fpots are larger and more numerous : quills dull black : middle tail feathers 

 greenifh black, outer ones edged with white : legs pale brown, hind claw long, 

 flender, and nearly ftraight. 



This fpecies makes its neft on the ground, generally on the fide of a hedge, 

 and lays four eggs. It feeds on infects and vegetables : in manners it comes 

 near the fky lark, rifing from the grafs in fong, continuing it in the air, and re- 

 turning to the earth again when it is completed, rarely refting on trees. Its 

 fong is foft and pkafing, but fhort. Field larks are conftant refidents in meadows, 

 and when difturbed give a note as they fly like pipet, pipet, from which they 

 are called pipet larks by the bird catchers. In the winter feafon they aflemble 

 in flights, and travel together in queft of food, and then are caught in great num- 

 bers, and fold in the ftreets of London by dozens in a cleft flick to eat, as the 

 bird fanciers do not keep them for finging. The egg is reprefented PI. XXL 

 F'g- 3. 



