. 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 ... . 2 NEST AND EGGS OF THE SKY«LARK. TABLE XLII. This bird, like the rest of the family, builds its neston the ground, in some furrow, or under a tuft of grassor weeds. The whole outside of the nest before me,is formed with dried stalks and blades of grass ; theintermediate coat between the outside and the lining,is composed of the same materials, but chosen thinner,finer, and softer; the lining consists o
. 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 ... . 2 NEST AND EGGS OF THE SKY«LARK. TABLE XLII. This bird, like the rest of the family, builds its neston the ground, in some furrow, or under a tuft of grassor weeds. The whole outside of the nest before me,is formed with dried stalks and blades of grass ; theintermediate coat between the outside and the lining,is composed of the same materials, but chosen thinner,finer, and softer; the lining consists of the very finestparts of the same stuff, mixed with a few hairs. The eggs are four in number, of a kind of duskygray colour, spotted with minute dark spots or points,most so at the bigger end. The eggs of the Sky-larkare constantly of the same colour, not being subject tothat variety of appearances which prevails in somespecies of the same family. Those who keep Larks in cages, besides sweet foodand pure water, would do well to give them every daya fresh turf of white or red clover; and when theseplants are not to be had, give them the seeds of them,now and then, along with their ^(^l V 8^ ojlli JkyJaJfl,^^fti^n <^ fk/^^ak from JViUm. MCZ WSRhJV^£* USA 43ALAUDA ARBOREA. Linn. Syst. 287. THE WOOD-LARK. PLATE XLIII. X he bill is black at the tip, of a dusky colour at thebase; the crown of the head is of a reddish brown,each feather having a dark stroke down the middle;at the base of the bill, on each side, arises a palecoloured line, which passes over the eyes, and is ex-tended round the head, in form of a wreath ; the backpart of the head, below this line, is the same colour asthe crown. It should be observed, that the feathersabove and below are separated by this line ; those onthe crown being longer, and forming an elegant crest,at the will of the bird. In breeding time, the malebird erects the crest when he sings; not only when atliberty, in his natural haunts
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