The name which Buff on has given it arifes from its being frequently
feen near the water.
It is laid ta fing, very agreeably.
10.
MEADOW L.
Alauda campeftris, Lin. Syji. i. p. 288. N°4. — Faun. Suec. 212. — Brum
N° 224. 22-5.—Muller, p. 291 N° 2 J2.*—GeorgiReifz, p. 1751
L ’Alouette de Champ, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 349. N° 5.
La Spipolette, Buf. oif. v.. p. 43.
Alauda minor campeftris D. Jt£ep. Rati Syn. p. 70. N.°A. 6.
Brach-lerche, Frijlb. t. 15.
D escription* ^ I Z E of a ‘tit-lark. The upper mandible blackilh j the lower
flelh-coloured : the plumage on the upper parts of the body
is greyilh. olive brown ; beneath, dirty yellowilh white : the lower
part of the neck arid breaft marked with longitudinal brown
fpots : over the eyes a ftripe of a-yellowilh white : the two middle
tail feathers grey brown; the others blackilh ;; the outmoft
one white the whole way on the outer web, and the fame halfway
from the tip on the inner web * ; the next has a. white fpot
at the tip : the legs and claws brown.
10*
V ar. A.
Alauda Spinoletta,- Lin. Syft. i~ p. 288.. 7,— Scop. anti. i. N? 187. ■
Spipoletta Florentinis, Rati Syn. p. 70* N° 9*
Spipoletto, or Tordino, Will. orn. p.209. §,10,
Description. r p H IS is lefs than, a Lark,, and in length more than feven
inches. The bill half an inch long, and quite black : the
* Linnaui fays, that the bale half of all the tail feathers, except the two middle
ones, is white.— Faun. Suec. p. 77. N° 212,
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top of the head, neck, flioulcfers, and back, cinereous, with a dafh
■ of green: the breaft and belly white: the throat fpotted: the
■ quills dufky, with pale edges : the tail three inches long ; the
feathers very dark j the two outmoft on each fide have the
outer webs and tips above half-way white : the legs are black,
and the hind claw very long.
This is commonly fold at Venice, among other birds, in the
markets ; and by Linnæus is fuppofed to be a different fpecies
‘From the former j but Brijfon unites all the fynonyms quoted by
him, tending to prove his opinion to the contrary, and that both
thefe laft are varieties of each other -, but the moil material difference
is in the tail feathers above-mentioned, and the quills,
which are much darker, and the colour of the bill and legs.—-In
this I am not capable of deciding, having never feen the bird.
Scopoli obferves, that they build in Carniola, in moift places i
about which fome of them remain the whole of the winter * in
mild feafons.
L ’Alouette huppée de la Côte de Malabar, San. Voy. Ind. vol. ii. p. 203.
pl. 113. f. 1.
J JE N G T H five inches and three quarters. The bill black :
the feathers of the crown of the head are brown, tipped with
h'hite, and are long enough to form a creft : thofe of the neck
pale rufous, marked with a ftreak of black down the lhafts,
the lower part broadeft : the throat and belly rufous white :
» Said to be common at Wonne/ii, and about the river Dm, in winter.—
■ vnouv. Ri$f, vol« i, p. 249.
Place and
O bservations.
MALABAR L.
D escription.
3 c 2 back.