Grasshopper Lark

They built by it, they came to it to drink; in the evening a grasshopper-lark trilled in a hawthorn bush. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

But they come to other places not far distant from the road, and one summer a grasshopper-lark could be heard in some meadows where I had not heard it the two preceding seasons. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

The grasshopper-lark chirps all night in the height of summer. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

Some did not show themselves (at least were not heard) till weeks after their usual time, as the blackcap and whitethroat; and some have not been heard yet, as the grasshopper-lark and largest willow-wren. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

My bird I describe thus: "It is a size less than the grasshopper-lark; the head, back, and coverts of the wings, of a dusky brown, without those dark spots of the grasshopper-lark; over each eye is a milk-white stroke; the chin and throat are white; and the under parts of a yellowish white; the rump is tawny, and the feathers of the tail sharp-pointed; the bill is dusky and sharp, and the legs are dusky; the hinder claw long and crooked." ❋ Gilbert White (1756)