PIPIT LARK. 



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The weight of this bird is five drachms and a 

 half: its length is six inches and a half : its beak 

 is dusky, with the sides and base of the upper 

 mandible dull yellow : irides hazel. 



The Pipit Lark frequents the same places as the 

 preceding species, to which it is most decidedly 

 greatly allied, although the proofs given in the 

 Ornithological Dictionary are not quite conclu- 

 sive enough to warrant their being considered as 

 one species ; as the Pipit not only differs in the 

 colour of its plumage, but is of a much superior 

 size, and has the hinder claw nearly straight, and 

 longer than the toe, whereas the Tit-lark has it 

 bent, and shorter than the toe. It is to be hoped 

 that future Ornithologists will pay particular at- 

 tention to this species, to ascertain if it be a 

 species or not. This bird appears in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London, in the autumn, in flocks ; it 

 has also been captured in Cornwall and Devonshire 

 in the winter. 



V. X. p. II. 



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