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67. Woodlark, LiilluLi arl)orea (L.). 



Plate 16, fig. 13 — 15 (Germany), 16, 17 (S. France). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXVI, fig. 4, a — d. Hemtson, 

 I. Ed. I, pi. CXXXIX, fig. 4, 5; II. Ed. I, pi. XXXVI, fig. 3; HI. Ed. I, 

 pi. XLV, fig. 3. Baedeker, Tab. 66, fig. 5. Taczanowski, Tab. LXII, fig. 2. 

 Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 15; id. Col. Fig., pi. 58. Frohawk, Br. Birds, II, 

 pi. VIII, fig. 255. 



British Local Name: Welsh: Uchedydd y coed. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Skfivan lesni. Denmark: Hedelaerke. 

 Finland: Mehtaleivo. France: Cujelier, Alouette hdu. Germany: Heide- 

 lerclie. Greece: Molochdbs tourlaki. Holland: Boomleeuwerik. Hungary: 

 Erdei pacsirta. Italy: ToUavilla. Poland: Skoiuronek horowy. Russia: 

 Sula, Liesnoi Javronok. Sweden: Trddlarka. Spain: Alondra de Monte. 



Alauda arhorea L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 625; Dresser, Birds of 

 Europe, IV, p. 321; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 389; Saunders, Man., p. 251. 

 Lidlida arhorea (L.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 241. 



Breeding Range: Europe, locally, except in N. Scandinavia and 

 N. Russia. [Also N. W. Africa and E. to Persia.] 



This bird has apparently decreased in numbers of late years, and is British 

 not now found in many localities where it is described as common by the ^ *'®' 

 earlier British writers on Ornithology. It is however still found locally 

 in the south of England, and in some parts of Wales and Ireland. In 

 England it is commonest, though always local, in the counties bordering 

 the S. coast, and in the Isle of Wight; but also occurs in suitable ground 

 in the Lower Severn and Thames valleys. A few pairs breed on the slopes 

 of the Chilterns, and a colony exists on the heaths near Thetford, on the 

 borders of Suffolk and Norfolk. In the N. Midlands few reliable records 

 of breeding of late years are known, but nests have been found in Northants, 

 and probably a few stiU breed in Leicestershire and possibly also in Shrop- 

 shire and Cheshire, though it is apparently now extinct in S. Derbyshire, 

 where it was once common. In the northern counties it is recorded from 

 a few localities in Yorkshire (chiefly on the E. coast), Lancashire, and 

 Cumberland, where Macpherson found it breeding on the W. coast. It is 

 a scarce resident in S. Wales; formerly much commoner in Pembroke, scarce 

 in Cardigan, but locally not uncommon on the borders of Brecon and Radnor, 

 In N. Wales, although there is little doubt that a few pairs nest, definite 

 records are still wanting. In Scotland no reliable information as to the 

 breeding of this bird has been received of late years, although Harvie- 

 Brown took a nest in Stirlingshire in 1863. In Ireland it still breeds in 

 Co. Wicklow, and possibly in other districts, but is now one of the rarest 

 residents, though formerly found in Munster, Leinster, and Ulster (Ussher). 



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