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ALAUDA ARVENSIS. THE SKY LARK. 



FIELD LARK. COMMON LARK. LAVEROCK. UISEAG. 



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Fig. 139. 



Alauda arvensis. Liun. Syst. Nat. I. 287. 



Alauda arvensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 491. 



Sky Lark. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Alouette des champs. Alauda arvensis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 281. 



Sky-Lark. Alauda arvensis. Selb, lUustr. I, 273. 



Alauda arvensis. Sky- Lark. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 127. 



Of both sexes the upiier parts light reddish-brown streaked with 

 blackish brown^ the fore-neck light reddish-brown spotted with 

 brownish-black, the sides streaked, the rest of the loicer parts dull 

 white ; an obscure brownish-white band over the eye ; the first 

 quill extremely small and acute, the second longest. 



Male. — The Sky Lark, although of a rather elegant form, is 

 not remarkable for the beauty of its plumage, which on the 

 upper parts bears a very intimate resemblance to that of the 

 Corn Bunting. Its song and peculiar flight however have con- 

 tributed to render it one of the most generally known of our na- 

 tive birds. The body is ovate and moderately full, the neck 



