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tribe ; runs rapidly along the ground ; and, \rhcn 
^ ® flock takes to wing, they fly high, and generally to 
o 'Considerable distance before they alight. Many of 
all*****- 'C’’''tinue in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia 
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"'inter, if the season he moderate. In the southern 
^ *tes, particularly in the lower parts of North and 
■ "Otb Carolina, I found the.se larks in great ahnndanoe 
V the middle of February. Loose flocks of many 
"drcds were driving about from one corn field to 
other; and, in the low rice grounds, they were in 
®®t abundance. On opening numbers of these, they 
^Ppeared to have been feeding on various small seeds 
ytli a large quantity of gravel. On the 8th of April I 
ot Several of these birds in the neighbourhood of 
d'^'ngton, Kentucky. In Pennsylvania they generally 
y'^^ppear, on their way to the north, about the begin- 
of'v in’ earlier. At Portland, in the district 
1 “laine, I met with a flock of these birds in October. 
'^0 not know that they breed within the United 
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tes. Of their song. 
^Unt. 
eggs, &c. we have no 
brown lark is six inches long, and ten inches 
ki k extent ; the upper parts, brown olive, 
foi . with dusky ; gi-eater coverts and next superior 
lighter ; bill, black, slender; nostril, prominent; 
lirlf '’"®r the eye, pale rufous; breast and 
krr ^eownish ochre, the former spotted with black ; 
liiu, k black, the secondaries brown, edged nith 
*eait ’ ^1‘nl‘tly foi'ked, black ; the tvr o exterior 
bf marked largely with white ; legs, dark purplish 
> hind heel, long, and nearly straight ; eye, dark 
^^le and female nearly alike. Mr Pennant 
that one of these birds was shot near London. 
