22 - Messrs. SugPPAnD and WurTEAR's Catalogue 
Genus XVIII. Araupa. 
1. À. arvensis (Skylark). 
It appears from the following remarks of Mr. Woolnough of 
Hollesley, that these birds frequently migrate into this country 
from the Continent in autumn, and return thither in the spring. 
Mr. W. thus writes :—** I have frequently seen /arks and rooks 
come flying off the sea; not in one year only, but in many ; not 
on one day only in the same year, but on several. I have seen 
them coming off the sea for many hours in the same day ;—the: 
larks from five and ten to forty or fifty in a flock ; the rooks, on 
the same day, in companies from three to fifteen. This I once 
observed in November for three days in succession ; the early 
part of that month was the general time of their coming: our 
fields were then covered with the Zarks, to the great destruction 
of the late-sown wheat. They generally remained with us till 
the first heavy fall of snow, and then disappeared. Early in the 
February following they appeared again on the coast in innu- 
merable flocks, but disappeared as soon as the weather became 
fine, with a light westerly wind: from which circumstance I con- 
cluded that they again crossed the sea. They appeared to me 
to be the same as our common Skylarks. 
“ Those darks and rooks that I have seen coming off the sea, did 
not appear like birds that had flown off for pleasure ; they always 
flew low, close to the water, and seemed fully intent on reaching 
the shore, on which they often alighted directly on reaching it.” 
2. A. arborea (Woodlark). 
The Wood-Lark breeds in this part of the kingdom, but it is 
a thinly-scattered species. 
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