. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SHORE LARK. 857 The Pencilled Lark is a very rare bird, and has comparatively recently been introduced to science. It is found in Persia, especially about Erzerouin, and is worthy of notice on account of the greatly developed pencils of dark feathers from which it derives its name. It is a prettily, though not brightly, colored bird. The upper part of tlie body is darkish ash, the wings and quill-feathers being of a brownish cast, with the exception of the external primaries,. PKNCUX
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE SHORE LARK. 857 The Pencilled Lark is a very rare bird, and has comparatively recently been introduced to science. It is found in Persia, especially about Erzerouin, and is worthy of notice on account of the greatly developed pencils of dark feathers from which it derives its name. It is a prettily, though not brightly, colored bird. The upper part of tlie body is darkish ash, the wings and quill-feathers being of a brownish cast, with the exception of the external primaries,. PKNCUXED hARK.— Otocorin pettcUlatiu. which are white. The forehead, the chin, ear-coverts, breast, and abdomen are white, and the two projecting pencils are jetty black. The top of the head and the nape of the neck are also ashen, but mth a purple wash. The tail is dark brown, with the exception of the two central feathers, which are dusky gi-ay. A CLOSELY allied species is the Shore-lark, a bird which has occasionally been seen, and of course killed, in England, although its ordinary dwelling-place is in North America. Of this bird, AVilson speaks as follows :— " It is one of our winter birds of passage, arriving from the north in the faU; usually staying vnth us the whole muter, frequenting sandy plains and open downs, and is numerous in the Southern States, as far as Georgia, duriug that season. They fly high in loose, scat- tered flocks, and at these times have a singular cry, almost exactly like the sky-lark of Britain. "They are very numerous in many tracts of New Jersey, and are frequently brought to Philadelphia market. They are then generally very fat, and are considered excellent eating. Their food seems principally to consist of small round compressed seeds, buckwheat, oats, etc., with a large proportion of gravel. On the flat commons, within the boundaries of the city of Philadelphia, flocks of them are regularly seen during the whole winter. In the stomach
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