NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



The call notes of the species are a very 

 musical double one, sounding something 

 like lu-lu and tweedle, weedle, weedle, 

 uttered on the wing. 



The Woodlark, like the Tree Pipit, al- 

 though roosting upon the ground, pro- 

 curing its food and rearing its young 

 there, must have some kind of timber, 

 whether it be 

 great belts of fir, 



NEWLY FLEDGED WOODLARK. 



with pastures and dry, heather-clad 

 commons between, or bare hillsides with 

 scattered clumps of oak and bushes here 

 and there to make its home amongst. 



It is said to breed most numerously in 

 the southern counties of England, occa- 

 sionally in the north, and rarely in Scot- 

 land and Ireland. 



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