go Be THE NATURAL HISTORY 
deed 1 in winter ‘they are always colleéted together 
in numbers. — ) es: ia 
“In the cold weather of January im, in the 
neighbourhood of Pont de Beauvoifin in France,. 
they appeared in fuch numbers, that a man witha — 
“ftick killed enough to load two mules; theywere ve~_ 
ry lean, and feemed almoft ftarved for want of food... 
The female makes her neft on the grounds. : 
~ and lines it with grafs, and fmall dry roots, ahd: 
_— fibres: the conceals it with fo much care, that ie 
is found with great difficulty. She fits only ele- 
“ven days, andin 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 themfelves, 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 
twice ; in Sweden, whichis colder, only once. 
The mother does not often warm her young ones: 
under her wings, they lie fcattered at alittle dif 
‘tance from one another, and ‘the often — 
dbove them. ‘ | 
- Buffon mentions an inftance of a young lark 
which he had in confinement, that conceived — 
‘all the affeGtion of a parent for fome neftlings | 
| ee were brought to aie and though fhe. was f 
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