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Description.
(Place and
Manners.
ance; they were mere lines on the head, and widened as they
proceeded downwards to the rump : the tail of one plain colour.:;
the hind claw ftrait, and half an inch in length.
This came from Sibiria.
Alauda calandra, Lift. Syft. i. p. 288. N" 9.
La große Alouette, ou La Calandre, Brif. orn. iil. p. 352. N° 6. pl. 20. f. 2.
—Buf. oïf. v, p. 49.— Pl. enl. 363. f. 2.
-Calandra, Olin. uceel. p. 30.— Will. orn. p. 208.— Ed<w. pl. 268.—Arct, Zool.
hem. Muf.
»J*H IS exceds the Crefted Lark in fize; and in length is feven
inches and a quarter. The bill is three quarters of an inch
long, very flout, and of a pale colour: the plumage on the upper
parts of the body brown and grey mixed, each feather being
brown in the middle: the throat is white, beneath which is a
•black mark, almoft in the lhape o f a crefcent: beneath this it is
•dirty white, marked with black : the belly is white : the fides and
thighs of a rufous brown: the quills very dark, with the outer
webs brown, the very edge whitilh ; the leffer quills partly the
fame, but are alfo tipped with white : the tail black; the outer
feather is white on the outer web, and about half-way from the
end of the inner; the next, bordered on the outer web with
white, and tipped with the fame; the third, edged with grey, and
tipped with white; and the fourth, only edged with grey: the
bill and legs are pale grey.
This is found in Italy *, Provence -f- in France, Sardinia,
* Olm*. f Hijl, In ti/%
’Aleppo,
Aleppo *, and other parts of the old continent. In the Tartarian
defarts common ; and between the rivers Don and Wtlga, as well
as other parts of the Ruffian empire; it is alfo faid to inhabit
America -fv
This bird is frequently kept for its fong, which, by fome, is
accounted excellent, not only ftriking the ear with its own natural
notes, but imitating thofe of others, as the Goldfinch, Unnet,
Canary-bird, and fuch like.
The male differs from the female in being bigger, and has more
black on the neck.
It is faid to build on the ground, like the Sky-lark -, to lay four
or. five eggs; and to live four or five years
Alâuda Calandra ? Pall. Trav* vol. ii. p. 70& N3 15.
gj l Z E of the Crefted Lark. Bill livid, tip brown : the crown
of the head,, ears,, leffer wing coverts,, and thofe of. the tail,,
ferruginous,, inclining to« yellow:: the under parts dirty white,,
varied with ferruginous on the fore part o f the neck : the feeon-
dary quills are moft.ly white,, moft obfervable when the wing is-
fpread; the outer one of the prime quills-wholly, white;, the
next,,white on the margin.: legs grey..
This, is plentiful in the funny fields in the neighbourhood of
the river Irtis, in Sibiria-,, where it makes the nefl on the.
ground, like the Sky-lark-, but is inferior to it in fong.,
* Edwards— Ruffel. Hiß. Alep, p, 61, f Edward's J Olinas
Alauda.
Ml V ar. A.
WHITEWINGED
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Description.
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