284 LARK. 



16— MEADOW LARK. 



Alauda campestris, Tnd. Orn.'u. 495. Lin. i. 288. Faun. suec. No. 212. Gm. Lin.'u 

 794. Brun: No. 226. Muller, No. 232. Georgi, 173. Bris. iii. 349. Id. 8vo. i. 

 408. Frisch, 1. 15. Borowsk. iii. 199. Germ, i v. t. 372. 1. 



Alauda Dumetorum, Klein, Stem. 13. t. 15. 3. a — c. 



Gickerlin, vel Grieu Vogelin, Gm«. ^y. pi. in p. 721. Raii, 81. 8. H 7 *'//. p. 154. Id. 



Engl.VM, 



Kraut Vogel, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 19. lower figure. 

 Meadow Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 378. Shaw's Zool. x. 539. 



SIZE of a Titlark. Bill blackish, the under mandible flesh- 

 colour; plumage on the upper parts greenish olive brown, beneath 

 dirty yellowish white; the lower part of the neck, and breast marked 

 with longitudinal brown spots ; over the eye a yellowish white stripe; 

 the two middle tail feathers grey brown ; the others blackish ; the 

 outmost white, the whole way, on the outer web, and the same, half 

 way from the tip, on the inner; the next with a white spot at the 

 tip; but Linnaeus says, that the base half of all but the two middle 

 feathers is white ; legs and claws brown. 



Inhabits Italy, and other parts of the Continent of Europe, but, 

 according to Brisson, is the same with the following, as he has 

 included the synonyms there recorded. M. Temminck joins Brisson 

 in this opinion. 



17— SPINOLETTA LARK 



Alauda Spinoletta, Ind.Orn. ii. 495. 12. (3. Lin.u p.288. Gm. Lin. i. 794. Scop. i. 



187. Dec. russ. i. 249. 

 Anthus aquaticus, Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 149. Id. Ed. ii. p. 265. 

 Alouette Pipi, PI. enl. 661. f . 2 ? 

 Spipoletta, Raii, Syn. 70. 9. Will. 152. Id. Engl. 209. §. 10. Celt. Uc. Sard. 158. 



Gen. Syn. iv. 378. 10. A. 



THIS is a more slender bird, and longer than any before men- 

 tioned ; length seven inches and a half; breadth eleven. The upper 



