LESSEE-CRESTED LARK. 



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ance of a predaceous bird, when they fall like a 

 stone : they are most abundant in the more open 

 and highest cultivated situations abounding in 

 corn, being but seldom seen in extensive moors at 

 a distance from arable land : they place their nest 

 on the ground amongst grass or corn, between two 

 clods of earth ; it is composed of dried grass and 

 other vegetable substances, lined with very fine 

 dry grass : the female lays four or five dirty white 

 eggs, blotched and spotted with brown 5 she has 

 generally two broods in the year. 



LESSER-CRESTED LARK. 

 (Alauda cristatella.) 



Al. capite cristato, corpore supra fusco subtus albicante, remigi- 

 bus rectricibusque fuscis, pedibus subrubris. 



Lark with a crested head, the body above fuscous, beneath 

 whitish, with the quills and tail-feathers brown, and feet red- 

 dish. 



Alauda cristatella. Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 4gg, 26, 

 Alauda nemorosa. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 797. 

 Alauda cristata minor. Raii. Syn. p. 6g. a. 5. — Briss. Orn. 3. 

 36l. 9. 



Le Lulu. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. r^.—Biif. PI. Enl. 503. 

 f.2. 



Crested Lark. Pen. Brit. Zool. I. 141. 



Lesser-crested Lark. Will. Ang. p. 207.— Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 

 391. 24.— ietuz??. Brit, Birds, 3. Q.-^Mont, Orn. Diet, l. 



