WOOD-LARK, 
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WOOD-LARK, 
Defcription and Char after. 
T HIS bird is univerfally admired for his 
great variety of foft and delightful notes, 
that, in the opinion of moft people, he is the 
bell fong-bird found in this kingdom : he is not 
on'y, as fome have faid, comparable to the 
N.gatingale for linging, but, in my judgment, 
deferving to be preferred before that excellent 
bird fttand if he be hung in the fame room, will 
ftrive with him for the malfery ; as likewife it 
fometimes happens in the woods, where there 
is a ftrong contention between thefe two cho- 
rifters to excel and outdo each other. If 
brought up from the nelf, and caged in the 
fame room with a Nightingale, he will learn 
his notes, and as it were incorporate them with 
his own. 
He is of great beauty, both in fhape and 
plume : his bread: and belly are of a pale yel- 
lowifh hair-colour, faintly fpotted with black ; 
the back and head are party-coloured, of black 
and reddifh yellow, a white line encompaffing 
the head from eye to eye, like a crown or wreath. 
It is fomething lcfier, and fhorter bodied than 
