BIRDS. PASSERES. 23. Motacilla. 43 



98. A. minor. Yellow-brown with dusky spots : throat 

 and breast ochre-yellow with brown spots : chin and 

 belly yellowish white. 



Field Lark. Lewin t. 92. Walcott. 192. 



Length 6 inches and a half: weight nearly 6 drachms. 

 Bill dusky, beneath whitish : iris hazel : wing-coverts tipt with 

 dirty white : rump not fpotted : outmoft tail-feathers half white, 

 fecondaries tipt with white : legs yellow brown : hind-claw short, 

 curved. 



99. A. rubra. Rufous-brown with dusky spots : sides of 

 the neck and breast ferruginous with dusky spots : 

 cheeks dusky : over the eye a pale rufous streak. 



Red Lark. Lewin t. 89. Edwards t. 297, 



Size of the Sky Lark. Bill whitish beneath at the bafe : iris 

 hazel : chin and throat pale ferruginous : from the bill acrofs the 

 eyes a dusky ftreak : wings with 2 fin all whitish lines acrofs them : 

 greater quills dusky with a yellow-white edge, the reft with a ru- 

 fous margin : belly and vent dirty white : middle tail-feathers black- 

 ish, with rufous margins, outer-ones white, fecondaries white on 

 the outer-web and tip, the rest dusky : legs reddish-brown : hind- 

 calw as long as the toe, a little curved. 



100. A. cristata. Head crested : pale chesnut, with 

 dusky spots : belly and vent dirty white, unspotted : 

 tail-feathers blackish, the 2 outmost white on the 

 outer margins. 



Greater crefted Lark. Lewin t. 85. Albin t. 52. 



Length 6 inches and 3 quarters : larger than the Skylark. 

 Bill dusky above, yellowish beneath : iris hazel ; crest compofed 

 of 7-12 feathers nearly half an inch in, length : neck, and shoulders 

 grey-chefnut : wing-coverts brownish-black, with a chefnut edge : 

 throat and breast pale yellow, with a few black spots '..tail about 2 

 inches long : legs brown : hind-claw long, 



101 . A. cristatella. Head crested: above brown with black- 

 ish spots ; beneath pale ferruginous : over the eyes a 

 pale line : quill and tail-feathers brown : legs reddish* 



Lesser crested Lark. Lewin t. 87. PL enlum. 503./". 2. 



Lefs than the last. Bill dark horn-colour : iris hazel : crest lon- 

 ger : wing-coverts rich-brown with buff edges : throat and breast 

 pale brown, with oblong blackish fpots : belly and vent dull white : 

 tail short, the outer-feathers edged with white ; legs and toes, short, 

 slender : hind-claw long, slightly curved. 



23. MOTACILLA. Wagtail. 



102. M. alba. Chin, lower part of" the neck and breast 

 black : 2 outer tail-feathers obliquely white for more 

 than half their length. 



White Wagtail. Br. Zool. t. 55. Lewin t. 95. Donovan t. 5. 



Length 7 inches and a half: weight nearly 6 drachms. 

 Bill black : iris dusky : front, cheeks, and sides of the neck white : 

 crown and upper and under sides of the neck black : back greyjsh- 

 black : belly and vent white : greater wing-coverts black, tipt with 

 white : quills dusky, the inner-ones bordered with white on the 

 outer-webs: ta*7 black, except the outer-feathers: legs black. 



Female dusky where the male is black, and more grey above. 

 In the autumn there is only a black crefcent-like mark on the 

 breaft. 



103. M. Boarula. Above dark grey, beneath buff yellow: 

 vent and rump pale yellow : outmost tail-feathers 

 entirely white, secondaries on the inner- webs. 



