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INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 
sterile plains of those which are most elevated, as the 
Pyrenees and others ; more rarely in salt marshes, or 
in tufts of grass on shelving rocks near the sea. This 
fabric is made, in the fissures of cliffs, of dry grass, and a 
little moss, lined with finer blades of the former and a 
few long hairs. The eggs are 4 or 5, of a sullied white, 
covered with small brown spots, collected chiefly towards 
the larger end. The younger birds, or Dusky Lark, 
breed on the sea-coast of the South of England. 
This species is about 7 inches long. Legs chesnut. Lower man- 
dible straight and livid, the upper blackish. Eye hazel. Above (in 
the adult) greyish-brown, with a darker shade in the centre of each 
feather. Small coverts of the wings bordered and edged with grey- 
ish-white. Spots of the breast, pale greyish-brown. In the young 
the spots below are dark and conspicuous, and the 2 bands on the 
wings are of a greyish-brown ; upon the 1st and 2d primaries there 
is also a large spot of white. 
