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L AUK:, s K Y. 



ALAUDA ARYENSIS, Lin. 



Perhaps none of our native birds have attracted 

 more notice, or are 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 eggs, 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. 



LAEK, WOOD. 



ALAUDA AEBOEEA, Lin. 



The Wood-lark, which is considerably smaller 

 than the Sky-lark, is not uncommon in the southern, 



