The Hiflory ^/ANIMALS. 
Alauda alis oblique albo variegatis. 
7be Alauda , with the wings obliquely 3C|)£ 
variegated with white* 
This is of a middle fize, between the common lark and the tit-lark 5 it’s weight 
is about an ounce and a quarter, and it’s body is fhorter, in proportion to it’s thicknefs, 
than in the common lark: the head is fmall; the beak is brown, flender, and half 
an inch long : the noftrils are round } the iris of the eyes is brown : the legs are of a 
pale ftraw colour, and fometimes reddilh. 
The bread: and belly are of a yellowifh-white, and the throat is whiter dill, but 
there are black fpots on the middle of all the feathers: the head and back are mottled 
with black, brown, and yellowilh j the neck has a great deal of grey diffufed over it: 
there runs a white line backwards from each eye, which in a manner furrounds the 
head; the rump is of a reddifh-yellow, and the long feathers in each wing $ and fome 
them are elegantly and obliquely divided between white and brown, efpecially the 
fecond in each wing, which is the charadteriftic of the fpecies. 
This is frequent with us j we often fee flights of them librating themfelves in the 
air, and finging at the fame time with a note not unlike that of the black-bird. All 
the writers on thefe fubjedts have defcribed it. Ray, Willughby, and others diftin- 
guifh it by the name of Alauda Arborea. 
Alauda gula pe&oreque jlavefcente . 
The yellow-breafted Alauda . 
This is of the fize of the common fparrow, and more refembles that bird in fhape 
than any other fpecies of this genus : the head is fmall; the beak flender, and the 
iris of the eyes hazel: the ground colour of the head, neck, and back is a rufly grey, 
and it is variegated with fpots of black and brown, difpofed in the manner of thofe on 
the wood-cock: the breaft and the throat are yellow $ there is alfo a line of yellow 
on each iide of the head over the eyes, continued to the hinder part; the belly is 
white: the covering feathers of the wings are of a blackifh-brown, fpotted with white : 
the tail is moderately long, and not forked. 
We have this in plenty in England, and in moft other parts of Europe. Ray, 
Willughby, and others have called it Alauda minor campeftris. 
Alauda reSlricibus mgr is y lateralibus tribus albis . 
The Alauda , with the tail feathers blacky except 
the three lateral ones, which are white . 
\\ 
%\)t pica 
Cljaffinc!). 
The Englifh name of this fpecies is a very ftrange one, for one of this genus; 
but it muft be acknowledged that the bird has lefs of the general appearance of the 
lark-kind than any of the others ; the generality of writers have not indeed known 
whither to refer it. It is about the fize of the wood- lark : the head is fmall ; the 
beak is fhort, and not very flender ; and the eyes bright, and their iris of a beautiful 
hazel: the head, neck, and breaft are of a whitifh-brown ; the whole under part of 
the body is whitifti ; the back is naturally black, but it varies with grey and brown : 
the wings are black at the tips, and whitifh elfewhere : the tail is black, excepting 
for the three outer feathers on each fide, which are white. 
This is not a native of England, but in the more northern parts of Europe it is 
frequent. Authors have defcribed it under the feveral names of Pafifer Laponico-Alpi- 
nus, and Avis nivalis j and the bird defcribed as different fpecies, under the names of 
Fringilla montana, and Montifringilla calcaribus Alauda?, feems to be the fame in all 
refpedts with it, 
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