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THE NATURAL HISTORY 
deed in winter they arc alwavs collc&cd together* 
in numbers. 
In the cold weather of January 1776, in the 
neighbourhood of Pont de Bcauvoifin in 1 ranee, 
they appeared in fucti numbers, that a man withal 
flick killed enough to load two rnulcs; the) were ve. 
ry lean, md itemed almoll ftarved for want of food, I 
The female makes her neft on the ground, 
and lines it with gtafs, and (mall dry roots, anth 
fibres: fhe conceals it with fo much care, that it 
is found with great difficulty. She fits only ele¬ 
ven days, and in fifteen more, the young ones 
leave the neft, and follow her. 
As the neft is made, and the young are hatched, 
and capable of providing for themfelvcs, in fo 
fhort a time, it is probable that they breed more 
than once in a feafon. In warm climates they are 
fuppofed to hatch three times; in England perhaps 1 
twice ; in Sweden, which is colder, only once. 
The mother does not often warm her young ones 
under her wings, they lie lcattered at a little dii- 
tance from one another, and (he often flutters; 
above them. 
Buft'on mentions an inftance of a young larkj 
which he had in confinement, that conceived 
all the affe&ion of a parent for fome neftlings 
that were brought to her, and though fhe was 
but! 
