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LARK Sky. 
ALAUDA ARVENSIS, Lin. 
Perhaps none of our native birds has attracted 
more notice, or is better known, than the Sky- 
lark, which is generally distributed in all parts of 
Great Britain. The peculiar habit, which has ren- 
dered it so conspicuous, of rising with a fluttering 
and somewhat spiral motion to a great height in 
the air, while performing its delightful song, which 
is protracted beyond that of any bird known, has 
often been made the theme both of prose and 
poetry. The Sky-lark’s nest, which is placed in 
a hollow scraped in the ground, in a corner of a 
hay-field, or in an open pasture, is composed of 
withered grass rather loosely put together, and 
lined with finer fibres. The egos, of which there 
are four or five, vary much in size and colour, 
though they are generally of a greenish grey, 
freckled with small spots of greyish brown. 
LARK, WOOD. 
ALAUDA ARBOREA, Lin. 
The Wood-lark, which is considerably smaller 
than the Sky-lark,is not uncommon in the southern, 
