but this is an error, as we have repeatedly mot them from off 

 a bough, where it waits the paffing of infe&s, which it 

 catches by jumping at thenv, and then returns to the bough, 

 again in the manner of fome of the fmaller fpecies of larks, 



Thefe birds vary but little in their general plumage, fome 

 In (lances occafionally occur of their being found quite white ; 

 but the heel is a criterion by which the fpecies may with cer- 

 tainty be known. ' 



Our figure was. executed for the late Wjluam Curtis, 



