RED-LEGGED CROW. 407 



RED HOOP.— A name for the Bullfinch. 

 RED LARK (Alauda rubra, Linnaeus.) 



Alauda rubra, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 794 — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 494. 10 Flem. Br. 



Anim. p. 79 Alauda Pensylvanica, Briss. Supp. p. 94— lb. 8vo. 1. p. 419. 



13. — Alouette a joues brunes de Pensylvanie, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 58 Lark from 



Pensylvania, Edw. t. 297.— Red Lark, Br. Zool. No. 140.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 

 279. —Lath. Syn. 4. p. 376. 8.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 93,— Turton, Linn. 1. 

 p. 482. 



This species is rather superior in size to the sky lark, *measuring full 

 seven inches and a half in length.* The bill is dusky above, whitish 

 beneath, except at the point; irides hazel ; the upper part of the head, 

 hind part of the neck, and back, rufous-brown, each feather a little 

 dusky in the middle ; over the eye a pale ferruginous streak ; chin and 

 throat the same ; the ear coverts inclining- to dusky ; from the bill un- 

 der the eye a narrow dusky line ; the sides of the neck and breast fer- 

 ruginous, with dusky spots ; belly and under tail coverts ferruginous 

 white ; greater quill-feathers dusky, slightly edged with yellowish white ; 

 the rest of the quills deeply margined with rufous ; some of the larger 

 coverts the same, but those immediately impending the secondary quills 

 have whitish tips, making a small bar across the wing; one row also of 

 the smaller coverts are tipped with white, making another line of that 

 colour across the superior part of the wing ; the two middle feathers 

 of the tail are dusky, deeply margined with rufous-brown ; the outer 

 feather is white, the next is white on the exterior web ; the shaft 

 dusky ; legs yellowish brown ; hind claws as long as the toe, and some- 

 what curved. The size of the bill, legs, and hind claw, bespeak the 

 species. 



It should appear, that this rare British bird is subject to that sort of 

 variety in plumage from season, which has been mentioned with respect 

 to the meadow pipit. A specimen with which we have been favoured 

 by Mr. Foljambe for examination, has none of that rufous-colour, from 

 whence the name was derived, but is of a pale brown above, lightest on 

 the margins of the wing-coverts and tertials ; the under parts are also 

 rather paler than usual, but the breast and sides of the body are pale 

 rufous ; the cheeks, sides of the neck, and upper breast, spotted in the 

 usual manner ; the tail is marked with white on the lateral feathers as 

 usual ; the tail is of great length in proportion to the wings, which 

 when closed do not reach within two inches of the end. Of the habits 

 of this species little is known. Temminck and Bechstein are silent 

 on the subject. 



RED LEGS. — A name for the Red Shank. 



RED-LEGGED CROW.— A name for the Chough. 



