. 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 ... . ll 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 spots, tending belly is of a dusky white. Legs and feet, a paleflesh colour. This bird greatly resembles the Titlark, in descrip-tion, bu
. 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 ... . ll 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 spots, tending belly is of a dusky white. Legs and feet, a paleflesh colour. This bird greatly resembles the Titlark, in descrip-tion, but is distinguished from that bird by being of ashorter body and a paler colour; and above all, bythe hind claw, which is shorter and much more curv-ed. The Field-Lark most generally sits on walls oron the ground; sometimes, however (of which I haveseen only two instances), it sits on trees, from whichit ascends a little way in the air and sings. Its song isweaker and meaner than that of the Titlark. The Black-veined white Butterfly* feeds on haw-thorn, when in the caterpillar state; changes to achrysalis in May, and appears on the wing in June andthe beginning of July. * Papilio 5lii(>7)o/arlv Ijlael vm^MihJv!Uf^ n)rmn\S eU?i J;, ly jTiJhA. iGRARY3E. MA USA 48 NEST AND EGGS OF THE FIELD-LARK. PLATE XLVIII. This nest, like that of the Woodlark, had a bed ofmoss for its foundation, which fell off when the nestwas taken up. The whole outside is made of thestems and blades of dead grass, and the middle lay orcoat, of a finer sort of the same matter; the liningwas made of the finest part of the grass, with a fewhairs. Most birds vary in the choice of their mate-rials ; whether from carelessness, necessity, choice, orwhat other cause, I know not, but so we find nest I now describe is lined with the finest bladesof grass, mixed with a few hairs. I have seen nests ofthe same bird, with a thick lining consisting wholly ofhair, and others quite destitute of
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