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BROWN LARK. 



The Brown Lark is six inches long, and ten inches and a half 

 in extent; the upper parts brown olive touched with dusky; greater 

 coverts and next superior row lighter; bill black, slender; nostril 

 prominent; chin and line over the eye pale rufous; breast and belly 

 brownish ochre, the former spotted with black ; tertials black, the 

 secondaries brown, edged with lighter; tail slightly forked, black; 

 the two exterior feathers marked largely with white; legs dark 

 purplish brown; hind heel long, and nearly straight; eye dark 

 hazel. Male and female nearly alike. Mr. Pennant says that one 

 of these birds was shot near London. 



