IGO 
UEAUTirUL EIEES. 
lined with fibres and hair. The eggs are of a pale 
wood-brown, marked with blotches of grey and dark 
brown. This species does not associate in flocks in 
winter, as the Skylark does, but in little families of 
five or seven individuals, which separate on the 
approach of spring, or soon after Christmas ; when, 
if the weather be mild, the males begin to utter their 
song. 
