SO BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE FIELD LARK, 
OR ROCK LARK. 
( Alauda campestris, Lin . — La Sjoipolette , Buff) 
This bird is six inches and seven-eighths in length, 
and eleven inches and three-eighths in breadth, being 
less than the Skylark, and larger than the Titlark. 
The bill is rather slender; irides hazel; a pale streak 
extends from the upper part of the beak over the eyes, 
and a dark one underneath ; the plumage on the head, 
neck, back, wings, tertials, and tail, looks altogether 
of a deep olive brown, but on a nearer inspection, each 
feather is dark in the middle, and is of a lighter colour 
towards the edges ; but the lower part of the back is 
not clouded, being of a more uniformly pale olive, or 
greenish brown; the two outside feathers of the tail 
are brownish white the whole length of their outer 
margins, and the inner web is of the same colour, 
