312 LARK. 



of Chi-chup-pi-sue. The English call it Ortolan, and reckon it 

 delicious eating. By some called Snow-Bird, as it is very plentiful 

 in that season, and caught in great numbers by horse-hair springes, 

 placed in some bare place, the snow being scraped away, and a little 

 chaff strewed about; is always seen on the ground, and has little or 

 no song. 



A.— Alauda flava, Om. Lin.i. 800. Ind.Orn.xu 498.21. j3; Frisch, t. 16. Georgi, 



173. S. G. Gmel. reise, ii. 52. t. 12. 

 La Ceinture de Pretre, Buf. v. 61. PI. enl. 650. 2. 

 Berglerche, Naturf. xvii. 79. 

 Sehneelerche, Naturf. xxv. 22. 

 Shore Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 387. 19. A. Shaw's Zool. x. 522. 



LENGTH five inches and three quarters. Bill lead-colour; 

 forehead, chin, throat, and sides of the head, yellow ; between the 

 bill and eye a black spot, passing under the latter, and uniting with 

 a larger one beneath it ; top of the head and upper parts of the body 

 rufous, and grey brown mixed, spotted with black on the crown ; 

 on the breast a broad band of black ; from thence to the vent whitish ; 

 quills grey, edged with darker grey; upper tail coverts yellowish; 

 tail feathers almost black, edged with grey, except the outer ones, 

 which have white edges ; legs lead-colour, hind claw nearly half an 

 inch long, and very little bent. 



Inhabits Russia and Siberia* in the winter season, going north- 

 ward in spring ; is seen in Germany also, f and has been taken at 

 Dantzic both in April and December.^ 



53. -LOUISIANE LARK. 



Alauda Ludoviciana, hid. Om. ii. 494. Gm. Lin. i. 793. 



La Farlouzanne, Buf. v. 38. 



Louisiane Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 376. Shaw's Zool. x. 529. 



LENGTH seven inches. Plumage above greenish and blackish 

 brown mixed, appearing at first sight dull brown ; wing coverts 



* Decouv. russ. i. 102. Id. iv. 459. &c. f Frisch. % Hist, des Ois. 



