3^ WOOD'LARlv. 
can be taken, to raife them ; either the cramp 
or fcouring kills them, or they die in moult- 
ing. 
Tune and Manner of their building , -Ofc. 
It is a very tender bird, and yet breeds ear- 
ly in the Spring, as Toon as the Black Bird, or 
any other ; the young birds being ready to fly 
by the middle of March. They build at the 
foot of a bufli or a hedge, or in lays where 
the grabs is wet or dry, under feme turf to 
fhelter them from the weather. Their n eft is 
made of withered grabs, fibrous roots, and other 
finch like matter, with a few laorbe-hairs within- 
fide at the bottom, being a-bmall, and very in- 
different fabric \ it has hardly any hollow or 
fides, the bottom was almoft upon a level with 
the top : the whole compofition did not weigh 
a quarter of an ounce : the weight of the bird 
a little above an ounce ; its length fix inches, 
of which the bill is fomething above half an 
inch, and the tail two inches. She lays four 
eggs, of a pale bloom colour, beautifully mot- 
tled, and clouded with red, yellow, &c. 
Of the Youngs how to order them , T c. 
The Wood-Lark, as I faid before, breeds 
very early in the Spring; her young ones arc 
