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BIRDS. 
[Clafs. II. 
SPECIES 
TVil. orn. 204. 
Rail Jyn. av, 69, 
II. The Wood-lark. Plate 0 - Fig- 3- 
Briffon av. Ill, 340. Tab. 20, Fig, 1. 
Alauda arborea. Lin. JyJi. 166, 
rp h 1 s bird is inferior in fize to the fky 
I lark ; the colors are paler, and its note 
JL lefs fonorovis, tho’ not lefs fweet. Thefe 
and the following characters,which Mr. JVilloughby 
points out, may ferve at once to diftinguifh it from 
the common kind : that it whiffles like the black¬ 
bird : it perches on trees : the head is furround- 
ed with a whitifh coronet of feathers, reaching 
from eye to eye. The firft feather of the wing 
is fhorter than the fecond ; in the common lark 
it is near equal. The outmoft feathers of the 
[ail nave wnire tips, i ne woouiaric will ling in 
the night. It builds on the ground, in the fame 
manner as the former; but the fpecies is not near 
fo numerous, 
SPECIES HI. The 
JVil. orn . 206. 
Rail Jyn . av. 69 , 
F |jj ^ HIS bird is found frequently in low 
I marfhy grounds: like other larks it 
builds its neft among the grafs,and lays 
five or fi$ eggs. Like the woodlark it fits on 
trees; but has no harmony in its note, which is 
fhort and twittering. Its length is five inches and 
a half: the breadth nine inches: the bill is black: 
the back and head is of a greemfh brown, fpotted 
with black ; the throat and lower part of the belly 
are white : the breaft yellow, marked with oblong 
Tit-lark. Plate Q. Fig. 6 . 
Plate P i. F/g 3, 
Brijfon av. III. 343. 
Alauda pratenfis. Lin. Jyfi. 166. 
fpots of black : the tail is dufky • the exterior 
feather is varied by a bar of white, which runs a- 
crofs the end and takes in the whole outmoft web. 
The fubjecl figured in plate P. i. is a variety 
with dufky legs, (hot on the rpcks on the cpaft of 
Qaernarvonjhire: befides this, Mr. JVilloughby 
makes mention of another variety, which he calls 
the lejfer field-lark ; fuperior in fize to this, lefs 
green, having paler feet than the tit-lark, and 
fhorter fpurs. This we have feen in Shropfhire. 
SPECIES \\ 
Edzv . 297, 
^ H I S bird Mr. Edwards difcovered in 
the neighborhood of London. By his 
ngure it feems of the fize of the laft 
fpecies. The head, hind part of the neck, and 
back are qf 3 dufky brown : a blackifh line pafTes. 
thro’ each eye j above that is a clay colored one. 
i he wings and tail are of a dark brown; the ex¬ 
terior feathers of the latter wholly white ; thq 
The Red-lark. 
Brijfon av. Suppl. 94. 
tips of the two next on each fide alfo white : the 
under fide from bill to tail of a reddilh brown, 
marked with dulky fpots : the legs are of a dark 
brown : the hind claw (horter than that of the 
common lark. When the wings are gathered up, 
the third quil from the body reaches to its tip, 
which is a conftant character of the water wag¬ 
tail genus. SPF.riF S 
