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 'The Crefled Lark. 



Numb. LII. 



IT is bigger than a Sky Lark, hath a greater and longer Bill, almoft 

 an Inch long, meafuring from the Point to the Angles of the 

 Mouth ; the upper Chap dusky, the lower whitifh. The Tongue is 

 broad and fomewhat cloven ; the Irides of the Eyes are of a cinereous 

 hazel Colour ; the Creft-Feathers are blacker than the reft, and almoft 

 an Inch long, which he can ered: or lower at pleafure; the Back 

 is more cinereous and lefler fpotted than in the common Lark, the 

 Rump almoft wholly deftitute of Spots. 



The prime Feathers of the Wings are in number eighteen, befides the 

 outmoft very fhort and fmall one, the outward Vane of the firft Pinion 

 Feather is of a dirty white, inclining to yellow, the reft are not fo black 

 as in the common Lark, and have fome mixture of a pale red even in 

 their lower part; the Breaft and Belly are white, with a dafb of yel- 

 low 5 the Throat fpotted as in the common Lark ; The Tail is two Inches 

 and a quarter long, made up of twelve Feathers, the two outmoft of 

 which have their exterior Borders white, with a dafh of red, the reft 

 black, the third and fourth are wholly black; the fifth and fixth of the 

 fame Colour of the Body. 



It differs from the common Larh^ firft in Bignefs, fecondly in the 

 Creft, thirdly in the Colour of the Back, which is lefs fpotted, and not 

 fo beautiful, fourthly the Tail not fo long, fifthly in that it foars not fo 

 much in the Air, and when it mounts up ftays not fo long there, fixthly 

 that it flies not in Flocks as they do, laftly (as Aldrovandus obferves) 

 it is frequently feen about the Banks of Lakes and Rivers. 



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