ALAUDA 



s k r 



ARVENSIS. 



-LARK. 



Generic Character. 



Bill {lender, ftraight, pointed, curving at the tip. 

 Noftrils covered with feathers and briftles. 

 Tongue cloven at the point. 

 Toes divided to their bafe. 



Claws fharp, thofe on the hind toe very long and 

 {lightly curved. 



Synonyms. 



A laud a arvensis. Lin. Syft. 1.1 8 7. 1. Ind.Orn. 



2. p. 491. 1. W. Curtis 's Mfs, 

 Sky-Lark. Br. Zool 1. 136. Ib. fol. 93. tab. S. 2. 



fig. 7. Lath. Syn. 4. p. 368. 1. Mont. 



Orn. Dicl. Vol. 1. Bewick's Br. Birds^ Pi. 



l.p.. 194. 



JL H E Sky-Lark is in length about feven inches, in 

 breadth near twelve inches, and it weighs in the winter more 

 than two ounces • bill flender and fharp-pointed ; irides hazel ; 

 feathers on the crown of the head long, and erectable at plea- 

 fure ; legs light brown in the young bird, changing to dufky 

 as it advances in age ; claws fharp, the hind one very long 

 and nearly ftraight. Colour of the fexes alike. 



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