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The quil-feathers of the Wings were dusky, their exteriour edges being of a 

 yello wifli green. The middle feathers of the firft row of coverts have their tips and 

 exteriour edges white} and the middlemoft of the fecond row theirs (till of a lighter 

 white. The reft of the covert-feathers of the Wings are almoft of the fame colour 

 with thefcapular feathers. Ifuppofe it is peculiar to this kind to have the four firft 

 quill-feathers equal. 



The Tail is made up of twelve feathers, the two outmoft of which on each fide 

 are particoloured of white and brown : In the outmoft feather about the one half 

 and that the uppermoft, is white, the white dividing the feather obliquely. Of the 

 next feather the tip only is white: Thereftof the feathers are of a dark brown ha- 

 ving their exteriour edges of a yello wifti green. Of the two middlemoft the edges 

 round about are of the fame yello wifti green, not fo even and trim as thofe of the 

 other feathers, but as it were jagged or fringed. The Tail, when folded up, is a little 

 forked, near three inches long. 



The Feet are yellow : The Claw of the. back-toe, as in the reft of this kind very 

 long and dusky. The Gizzard not fomufculous as in other Larfc wherein we found 

 Beetles and Infects like to meal-worms. The blind Guts are lomething longer than in 

 the commonly It hath alfo a Gall-bladder. 



This bird fits alfo upon trees. In general it is lefs than the common Lark, greener, 

 and not fo finely coloured : In length from the point of the Bill to the end of the Claws 

 or Tail C for they are equally extended ) fix inches : In breadth between the tips of 

 the Wings fpread out ten and a quarter. 



Mr. Jejjbp lufpecrs that there is yet another different fort of this bird, which may be 

 called the leffer field-Lark which is i. A little bigger than that here defer ibed , 2. Lefs The idfer 

 green j 3. Having paler Feet 5 And 4. much fh6rter Spurs. c field-Lark* 



TheTitlarks Neftloncefaw in a Fur%e-bufh not far from the ground : It was built 

 outwardly of Mofs, inwardly of ftraw, with a little horfe-hair. She lays five or fix 

 Eggs- 



In this kind the Cock is all over more yellow than the Hen, but efpecially under 

 the Throat, on the Breaft, Legs, and foals of the Feet. 



" The TitlarkC faith a late Englilh Writer ) fings moft like the Canary bird of any 

 " bird whatsoever 5 whisking, curring* and chewing : But his Song is fhort, and hath 

 " no variety in it: He comes with the Nightingale about the beginning o£ April, and 

 *? goes about the beginning of September. The Young are to be fed, when firft taken, 

 " after the fame manner as the Nightingale: The old one ( if taken ) in like manner to 

 " be at firft cram'd: When he will feed himfelf give him Woodlark* meat, or almoft 

 cc any other. Before his going away he is apt to grow fat like the Nightingale, but will 

 cc eat though never fo fat. He is a hardy bird, and long-lived, if preferred with care., 

 " not fubjeel: to colds or cramps. 



§. V. 



The Titlark that fags like aGraJJwpper, Locuftella, D.Johnfon. 



TT is leffer than the Regulus non crifiatm hath a pretty long, ftreight Bill, yet ha* 

 ving a little declivity above, the upper Chap black, the nether of a horn colour. 

 The upper fide of the body is of a dusky yellow, befprinkled with blackiih fpots} 

 the underfide of a * pale yellow. The Tail is of the longeft, of a brown or dusky * ryeJlowim 

 colour, when fpread ending in a circular circumference. On the lower Belly, the whke,orvyhite 

 Thighs, and under the Tail it hath' brown fpots tending downwards. It hath long, Hj^ WIch 

 llender dusky-coloured Legs, crooked Claws, and a very long Spur or heel. It feeds 

 upon flies: It hath a note like a Grajhopper, but louder and thriller. When it fings it 

 commonly fits upon a bufh, with its mouth open, and ftreight up, and its Wings dif* 

 Ihevel'd/ 



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