RED-LEGGED CROW. 
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RED HOOP. — A name for the Bullfinch. 
RED LARK {Alauda rubra, Linn^us.) 
Alauda rubra, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 794 — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 494. 10. — Flem. Br. 
Anim. p. 79. — Alauda Pensylvanica, Briss. Supp. p. 94.— 76. 8vo. 1. p, 419. 
13. — Alouette a jouesbrunes de Pensylvanie, Buff- Ois. 5. p. 58 Lark from 
Pensylvania, Edw. t. 297. — Red Lark, Br. Zool. No. 140. — Arct. Zool. 2. No. 
279. — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 376. 8. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 93, — Turton, Linn. L 
p. 482. 
This species is rather superior in size to the sky lark, *measuring’ full 
seven inches and a half in length.* The bill is dusky above, whitish 
beneath, except at the point; irides hazel ; the upper part of the head, 
hind part of the neck, and back, rufous-brown, each feather a little 
dusky in the middle ; over the eye a pale ferruginous streak ; chin and 
throat the same ; the ear coverts inclining to dusky ; from the bill un- 
der the eye a narrow dusky line ; the sides of the neck and breast fer- 
ruginous, with dusky spots ; belly and under tail coverts ferruginous 
white; greater quill-feathers dusky, slightly edged with yellowish white; 
the rest of the quills deeply margined with rufous ; some of the larger 
coverts the same, but those immediately impending the secondary quills 
have whitish tips, making a small bar across the wing; one row also of 
the smaller coverts are tipped with white, making another line of that 
colour across the superior part of the wing ; the two middle feathers 
of the tail are dusky, deeply margined with rufous-brown ; the outer 
feather is white, the next is white on the exterior web ; the shaft 
dusky ; legs yellowish brown ; hind claws as long as the toe, and some- 
what curved. The size of the bill, legs, and hind claw, bespeak the 
species. 
It should appear, that this rare British bird is subject to that sort of 
variety in plumage from season, which has been mentioned with respect 
to the meadow pipit. A specimen with which we have been favoured 
by Mr.Foljambe for examination, has none of that rufous-colour, from 
whence the name was derived, but is of a pale brown above, lightest on 
the margins of the wing-coverts and tertials ; the under parts are also 
rather paler than usual, but the breast and sides of the body are pale 
rufous ; the cheeks, sides of the neck, and upper breast, spotted in the 
usual manner ; the tail is marked with white on the lateral feathers as 
usual ; the tail is of great length in proportion to the wings, which 
when closed do not reach within two inches of the end. Of the habits 
of this species little is known. Temminck and Bechstein are silent 
on the subject. 
RED LEGS. — A name for the Red Shank. 
RED-LEGGED CROW. — A name for the Chough, 
