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ROCK LARK. 

 (Alauda obscura.) 



Ah, olivaceo-Jicsca nigricante mria subtusjlavicans , lateribus colli 

 pectoreque maculis Jiiscescentihus, rectrice extima dimidiato, 

 secunda apice albo-cinerascente. 



Olive-brown Lark, varied with dusky, beneath yellowish, with 

 the sides of the neck and breast with brownish spots, half the 

 outer tail-feathers, and the tip of the second, of an ashy-white, 



Alauda obscura. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 494. 7. 



Alauda Petrosus. Mont, in Lin, Trans. 4. p, 41. pi. 2. egg. 



Dusky Lark. Levoin. Brit, Birds. 3. jol. 94. — Lath, Syn, Snp. 

 II. 227. 2. 



Sea Lark. U^alc. Syn. pi, 193. 



Tit Lark Pen. Brit, Zoo/. folio. pi. P, l.> var. 



Rock Lark. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 



Mr. Lewin appears to be the person that first 

 ascertained this to be a distinct species, although 

 perhaps the author of British Zoology was the 

 first that mentioned it ; for in the folio edition of 

 that work he has given a figure of a bird shot on 

 the rocks of Carmarthenshire, which he calls a 

 variety of the Tit-lark, and which appears to 

 agree tolerably well with the present species : 

 Colonel Montagu has well d^escribed it in the Lin- 

 nean Transactions, and has appended to his de- 

 scription an account of its habits ; the former I 

 shall extract verbatim, and give the substance of 

 the latter. 



" The bird weighs about seven drams : the 

 length six inches and three quarters : the beak is 



