SKY-LARK. 
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eft-coloured bird is the cock; for whoever ob- 
ferves them together may perceive the Cock- 
Jjark to be Something browner upon the back’: 
of a more yellowifti caft on the throat and breath 
unc. the feathers whiter upon the belly. 
Tune and Manner of Building their Ncf , 
The Sky-Lark has young ones by the end of 
April, or beginning of May. She builds her 
nett, fuch as it is, for tire ufes but very little 
fluff about it, only with a few bents, or fuch 
like materials, always upon the ground, or in a 
hole made by the root 01 a horfe, the wheel of 
a cat t, &c. either in corn-fields of any fort, or 
in pa ft are of any kind, and lays four or five 
brown egg<, almoft the colour of a clod of 
earth, thickly fpeckeu, as- the figure reprefents, 
with browiiith fpecks. 
Of the 2 oungj how to order them , LrV. 
These birds muft be taken when about ten 
days old ; if you let them alone longer, you 
run a great hazard of lofing them. I have 
known them quit their neft in f even or eight 
days, when they have been diflurbed, efpecial- 
ly if the old ones fee you look at their young, 
they will then entice them away of a hidden ; 
and in rainy weather, it is furpriftng to lee how 
