. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ation of the nest before me, consists of amixture of moss and dry grass, with which also thegreatest part of the work is constructed ; only the fin-est part is employed in the inside and about the lin-ing, in which a few fine fibres of roots, and a few hairsare mixed. The number of eggs is most commonlyfive. I know no bird whose eggs are so variable incolour as those of the Titlark. I have figured them
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ation of the nest before me, consists of amixture of moss and dry grass, with which also thegreatest part of the work is constructed ; only the fin-est part is employed in the inside and about the lin-ing, in which a few fine fibres of roots, and a few hairsare mixed. The number of eggs is most commonlyfive. I know no bird whose eggs are so variable incolour as those of the Titlark. I have figured themost beautiful variety in the nest, plate 46. There isa variety which is of a dirty gray, having spots of adark dusky colour. There is another with the grounda dark dull brown, and the spots black. Albin sawthem of a dark brown colour, and Mr. Walcot metwith them of a pale green. But in all these states, the species may be knownby having a regard to the spots; for they are not onlylarger than the spots on the eggs of any other speciesof Lark, but they are also softened into the groundcolour, like the spots on the eggs of the Chaffinch,which those of the eggs of other Larks are not. ^^^§^. MCZ UlRARYCA; MA USA -»»«M<«< 47ALAUDA MINOR. Gmd. Syst. 793. THE FIELD-LARK. PLATE XLVII. X he bill is black at the point, of a dusky flesh colourat the base. A line of pale straw colour passes overthe eyes; and the cheeks below the eyes are of adusky straw colour. The upper part of the bird, fromhead to tail, is a dusky olive. On the head and back,each feather is dusky in the middle; the edges beinglighter, but not so on the rump. The feathers of thewings are of a dusky black, with olive coloured tail feathers are of a dull black, with pale brownor olive edges, except the outmost two on each side,the first whereof is white, the other partly so. The throat is a pale kind of buff colour, and desti-tute of spots. The breast is a darker buff, and mark-ed with numerous black s
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