LARK. 281 



The note is very insignificant, being very rarely more than a chirp, 

 not unlike that of a grasshopper. For a more full account see Lin- 

 ncean Transactions above quoted, and the Ornithological Dictionary . 

 Is found also in America, one having been sent from Mr. Abbot, of 

 Georgia, under the name of Shore Lark. 



12— RED LARK. 



Alauda rubra, hid. Orn. ii. 494. Gmel. Lin. i. 794. 



Pennsylvanica, Bris. Sup. p. 94. Id. 8vo. i. 419. 



Alouette a joues brunes cle Pennsylvanie, Biif. iv. 58. 

 Lark from Pennsylvania, Edw. pi. 297. 

 Alauda rufa, Brown Lark, Amer. Orn. v. S9. pi. 42. f. 4. 



Red Lark, Gen. Si/n. iv. 376. Br. Zool. No. 140. Id. Ed. 1812. i. 486. Arct. Zool. 

 ii. No. 279. Shaiv's Zool. x. 517. Lewin, Birds, iii. pi. 93. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



THIS is a trifle bigger than the Skylark. Bill dusky; irides 

 hazel; plumage on the upper parts of the body dusky brown; a 

 black mark passes through the eye, and a clay-coloured one above 

 it; eyelids light coloured ; under parts of the body light reddish 

 brown, marked with dusky spots; legs dark brown, hind claw long, 

 and somewhat curved. 



The above description from Mr. Edwards. The Ornith. Diet, is 

 more minute; from which we learn, that the two middle feathers 

 of the tail are dusky, deeply margined with rufous brown, the outer 

 one white, the next white on the exterior web, and part of the in- 

 terior towards the tip ; the shaft dusky ; the rest of the feathers dusky. 



This is a very rare British Species, and has, we believe, only been 

 met with in the neighbourhood of London : Mr. Edwards first disco- 

 vered it, and we have observed a second in the Leverian Museum ; 

 the specimen also in Colonel Montagu's Collection, and from which 

 he took his description, was killed in Middlesex.* It is said to 

 be more common in America, but we are at present entirely in the 

 dark as to its general manners : the above are, we believe, the only 



* We saw one in the Collection of the late Mr. Foljambe, caught near London, in 1812. 

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