SKY LARK. 



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INSESSOBES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



ALAUDIDjE. 





THE SKY LARK. 



Alauda arvensis, Sky Lark, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 475. 



,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 216. 



Field Lark, Flem. Brit. An. p. 79. 



Sky ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p, 273. 



,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Yert. p. 127. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Alouette des champs, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 281. 



The Sky Lark is so abundant as a species, so universal 

 a favourite, and its various qualities are so well understood 

 and appreciated, as to require little more than a general 

 reference here to the points of greatest interest in its history. 

 It is an inhabitant of most, ifnotall, the countries of Europe, 



