268 LARK. 



A smaller Lark accompanied the last, much the same in colour ; 

 over the eye a pale butf-coloured streak ; bill, tail, and legs, as in the 

 other, but the shins seem longer; the hind toe and claw in both, as 

 in the European Species; but the feathers, in general, have pale buff 

 edges: this was named Coostulla, and weighed only 12 drachms;' the 

 wings in both reach about three-fourths on the tail. 



2.-ITALIAN LARK 



Alauda Italica, hid. Orn. ii. 492. Gm. Lin. i. 793. Bris. iii. 355. Id. 8vo. i. 409. 

 Giarola Aldrovandi, Rail, 70. 10. Will. 152. Id. Engl. 209. 9. Buf. v. 47. 

 Italian Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 373. Shawns Zool. x. 509. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill red ; the plumage above chestnut 

 brown, edges of the feathers reddish white, especially at the hind- 

 head, which much inclines to white; breast, belly, and sides white; 

 eight of the middle tail feathers chestnut brown, with paler edges ; 

 the last but one on each side the same, with a white tip, and the 

 outer one quite white ; legs flesh-colour, claws whitish. 



Inhabits Italy, according to Brisson, who says it had the appear- 

 ance of a young bird : according to Ray, it greatly resembles the 

 Wood Lark, except in the colour of the tail feathers : and Aldro- 

 vandus, from whom the whole is borrowed, says, that the tail is very 

 short, which is one character of that bird. 



BufFon mentions one, shot at Bologna, about the end of May, 

 answering to the above description ; the outer tail feather in this was 

 white, and the next half white from the tip ; the hind claw half an 

 inch long, and curved only at the point. 



M. Temminck joins us in thinking it nearly allied to the Skylark, 

 if not the same. 



