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CALANDRE LARK. 



esteemed by many, as it not only has a fine note 

 of its own, but will imitate that of many other 

 song birds, as the Goldfinch, Linnet, &c. : it con- 

 structs its nest after the manner of the Skylark, on 

 the ground, and lays four or five eggs. 



It is rather more than seven inches in length : 

 its beak is rather short, and is of a pale horn- 

 colour : the upper parts of its body are variegated 

 with brown and grey, the shafts of the feathers 

 being of the former, and the edges of the latter 

 colour : the quills are very dark, with their outer 

 webs brown edged with whitish : the throat is 

 white, bordered on the lower part with a black 

 lunulated stripe, beneath which, towards the 

 breast, the feathers are dirty white, varied with 

 black : the belly is white, and the sides of the 

 body and thighs reddish brown : the outer tail- 

 feather is white on the outer and tip of the inner 

 web ; the next is bordered on the outer web with 

 white, and is tipped with that colour ; the third is 

 edged with grey, and tipped with white ; and the 

 fourth is merely tipped with grey: the rest of the 

 tail is black : the legs are pale grey : the male is 

 rather larger than the female, and has his back of 

 a darker black. 



