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the Britifh Mufeum is of a full deep black throughout, and that 
from which the figure in our plate-is copied, is of a lighter colour in 
many parts than that feems to have been from which Albin engraved 
his plate. ‘The account which this Author has given is curious: 
«¢ This Lark,” fays he, ‘ was taken with a clap net by one of the 
Bird-catchers in a field near Highgate, and brought to me by Mr. 
Davenport, which I have taken care to draw exactly from the Bird, 
neither adding nor diminifhing in the draught or colouring. This 
being a curiofity, I was defired by one of my fubfcribers to make a 
plate of it.” 
The name Albin has given it is fcarcely juftified by this defcrip- 
tion which he’has added. “¢ The bill of this. Bird was of a dufky 
yellow; the irides of the eyes yellowith: it was all over of a dark 
reddifh brown, inclining to black, excepting the hind part of the 
head, on which was fome dufky yellowith feathers ; likewife fome 
feathers with whitifh edges on the belly.” 
Our fpecimen was fhot in Scotland by Mr. Agneau, Gardener 
to the late Duchefs of Portland, feveral yeas ago. Its length rather 
exceeds feven inches, 
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