WOOD LARK. 



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INSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



ALAUDIDM. 



THE WOOD LARK. 



Alauda arborea. Wood Lark, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 479. 



,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 227. 



,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 79. 



,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 276. 



,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 127. 



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



Alouette lulu, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 282. 



The Wood Lark is immediately distinguished from the 

 Sky Lark, last described, by its smaller size, its shorter tail, 

 and by a conspicuous light brown streak over each eye and 

 ear-coverts. It is by no means so plentiful a species as the 

 Sky Lark ; and in some localities in this country, even of 

 very considerable extent, it is not found at all. It prefers 

 hedge-bound meadows, cultivated lands, and corn-fields, that 

 are interspersed with copses, plantations, and small woods, 



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