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Longs 
Foie 
: _ Rumbers amoneft oat ftubbles. 
OG 4° BALGEDKS. INT ay 
in the year, the firft brood are fometimes ready to 
“Hy before the beginning of April. 
The Wood-lark, like the Tit-lark, can perch 
upon trees, but for the fame reafon chufes the 
larger’ branches, and like the Sky- ies it sfings, 
“as it foars in the air. - 
~Ttis a very tender bird, and Renee ah 
~ great difficulty. Indeed it feldom lives a year in 
acage, or furvives moulting. Its fong is very 
‘melodious, and plaintive, much like the Night- 
‘Ingale’s, and like. the ‘Nightingale it fome- 
times fings in the night. | Some have thought 
» that ifs fong has a fel sar ie to the Black- 
_hird’s. | : 
‘Taz MEADOW-LARK 
The tail feathers dufky, the Jower half white, except 
“in the two in the middle; the throat and breaf yellowilh 5 
: ‘over each eye a firipe of yeHlowith white. 
Tt is not found farther north than. Sweden. 
Meadow-larks frequent brakes, and ftubble 
_ lands, and after harveft they are found in great 
The male is. rather larger. than. the - fe- 
1 Hale in Siew void they nearly: refemble, each. 
AY pps but the males are fo quarrelfome that 
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