THE WOOD-LARK. 



" What time the timorous hare trips forth to feed, 

 When the scared owl skims round the grassy mead, 

 Then high in air, and poised upon his wings, 

 Unseen the soft enamoured wood-lark sings." 



The Wood-lark is also a beautiful bird, and 

 resembles the sky-lark in color, but is smaller. If 

 he cannot soar so high nor sing so sweetly as the 

 sky-lark, he can do what the latter can't ; and that is, 

 either sit and smg on the branch of a tree, or have 

 a fly, and carry his music along with him. But, 

 though so partial to perching on a branch, like the 

 sky-lark he builds on the ground. Some bird-fan- 

 ciers say he possesses a more musical and sonorous 



