Alauda Magna: The Large Lark.
This Bird weighs three ounces and a quarter. The Bill is straight,
sharp, and somewhat flat towards the End. Between the Eye and the
Notril is a yellow Spot. The Crown of the Head is brown, with a
dusky white lift running from the Bill along the middle of it. A
black lift, of about an inch long, extends downwards from the Eye.
The sides of the Head are light gray. The Wings and upper part of
the Body are of a Partridge-coulour. The Breast has a large black
Mark, in form of a horse-shoe; except which, the Throat and all
the under part of the Body is yellow. It has a jetting Motion with
its Tail, sitting on the tops of small Trees and Bushes in the manner
of our Bunting; and, in the Spring, sings musically, though not
many Notes. They feed mostly on the Ground on the seed of Grasses:
Their flesh is good Meat. They inhabit Carolina, Virginia
and most of the Northern Continent of America.
Ornithogalum luteum parvum foliis gramineis glabris: The Little
This Plant grows usually not above five inches in height, producing
many grassy leaves, from which rises a slender stalk bearing a yellow
Star-like pentapetalous Flower. It has five Stamina, every
leaf of the flower having one growing opposite to it. The Flower
is succeeded by a small long capsula, containing many little
black Seeds: This plant grows plentifully in most of the open Pasture
lands in Carolina and Virginia, where these Larks
most frequent and feed on the Seed of it.