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BIRDS. PASSERES. 75. Alauda. 481 
•Body gfey j fides of the head and collar beneath the nape 
■white; fpot on the crown, band under the eyes and 
collar on the neck black. St. Domingo Turtle. 
Inhabits St. Domingo : ii inches long. 
^iU black ; wings ■with a few hlackifti Ipots ; breafl vina- 
ceous ; front, chin and vc;U white ; tail grey, the outermolb 
feathers white ; legs red. 
75* ALAUDA. Bill cylindrical, fubulate, 
ftraight; the mandibles equal and a 
little gaping at the bafe : tongue bifid ; 
hind-claw ftraight, longer than the toe. 
Lark. 
^uter webs of the a middle tail-feathers white, middle 
w ones ferruginous on the inner fide. Sky i. Field L- 
ody wholly white. 
“ody black-brown. 
very long. Inhabits Ruffia. 
•Inhabits Europe, Afia and Africa; 7 inches long; feeds on 
■ fruits and infefts ; fings exquifitely at the earlieft dawn, as 
It foars fpira'lly in the air, Increafing the volume of its note 
3 s it afednds ; aflembles in vail flocks in sS'interj when it be- 
comes very fat ; builds on the ground beneath a clod, and 
Jws 4 — 5 greenifli-wliite eggs, with dulky confluent fpots. 
Tins and the wood-lark are the only birds that ling as 
they fly, 
^ody above varied with blackifh, reddifh-grey and whitifh, 
beneath rcddifli-white ; bill and legs black ; throat Ipotted 
with black; 
^^ 3 cki(h-brown ; neck above, back ail'd fcapiilars reddifh- 
orange ; wings and tail dulky. Rufous-backed L. 
•Inhabits Jonarid; hardly 5 inches long. 
G: 
'■eenifh-brown ; outer Webs of the 2 outermoft tail-fca- 
thers white ; eyebrows with a white line. Tit-lark. 
nhabits Europe, in low grounds; 5I inches long ; has a fine 
J? fings fitting in trees or oh the ground. 
tU black ; body beneath white ; breajl ochre-yellov 
tong black fpots ; tegs ycllcwifh. 
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