brown, the shaft and centre of each feather darker, and the edges
buff white; tertiaries, edged with buff white. The tail has the two
middle feathers nearly uniform light In-own, the outer one on each
side light brown, with a huff white margin on the outside, the rest of
tin; feathers dark brown; legs, tees, and claws, pale brown.
The female is rather less in size than the male, and the crest is
less conspicuous.
This bird, or rather one should say a bird by this name, as it
seems doubtful whether our older writers knew it at all, has been
made by some of them into two species, by the names of the Greater
and Lester Crested Lark, the latter being the female, or the young,
of their supposed Crested Lark.
I do not read of any varieties of this bird as assuming the'drapeau
blanc.'
