. Arctic zoology .. . , De Buffon, v. 49.—PL Enl. 363.—Briffon, iii. 352. T With a bill thicker and ftronger than ufual to the genus: fromthe bill a black line paffes to and beyond the eye; above andbeneath are two others of white, faintly appearing : head, neck,back, and coverts of the wings, reddifli brown, fpotted with black:primaries and tail dun<y, edged with ruft-color: throat white:upper part of the breaft crofled by a narrow black crefcent; beneaththat the breaft is of a pale brown, fpotted with a darker: belly andvent white : tail a little forked : legs of a pale flefh-color. In Si
. Arctic zoology .. . , De Buffon, v. 49.—PL Enl. 363.—Briffon, iii. 352. T With a bill thicker and ftronger than ufual to the genus: fromthe bill a black line paffes to and beyond the eye; above andbeneath are two others of white, faintly appearing : head, neck,back, and coverts of the wings, reddifli brown, fpotted with black:primaries and tail dun<y, edged with ruft-color: throat white:upper part of the breaft crofled by a narrow black crefcent; beneaththat the breaft is of a pale brown, fpotted with a darker: belly andvent white : tail a little forked : legs of a pale flefh-color. In Sizerather fuperior to the Sky-Lark j but the body thicker. It is a fpe-cics allied to the common Bunting. Brought from North Carolina; and firft defcribed as an American Placs. bird by Mr. Edwards. Is common in many parts of Europe, efpe-cially in the fouthern. In Jfia it is found about Aleppo, and is pretty-frequent about the Tartarian deferts bordering on the Don and Volga. 3 ■^ Ssr-LAiiRt 354 S K Y - L A R K.,. Siai. Pla cs. A. Sky-Lark, 5r. Zw/.i. N , Dt Biiffhn, v. r. Alauda arvenfis. Larka, Fauit. Suec. N* 209.—Latham, ii. 368.—-Luv. Mus.—Bl. Mus. T ^ With the crown of a reddifh brown, fpotted with black : hindpart of the head cinereous : chin white : breafl and belly paledull yellow ; the firil fpotted with black : back and coverts of wingsdufky, edged with pale reddifli brown : exterior web, and half theinterior web of the outmoft feather of the tail, white : legs feven inches one-fourth : Extent twelve and a half:Weight an ounce and a half. Inhabits all parts of Europe, even as high as Nordland in Nor-way, beneath the Ar5lic circle. They migrate in Scandinavia. Theyare the firft birds, in Kafi Gothland in Sweden, which give notice of thereturn of fpring, finging with a tremulous note, and flying in flocksnear to the ground. Enlivened by the warmth of fummer, fing with full voices. In September they colled in flocks,and
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