

SPECIES 3. ALAUDA 



BROWN LARK. 

 [Plate XLII. Fig. 4.] 



Red Lark, EDW. 297. Arct. Zool. JVo. 279. LATHAM, n, 376. 

 L'Mouette aux joues brunes de Pensylvanie, RUFF, v, 58. 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 5138. 



IN what particular district of the northern regions this bird 

 breeds, I am unable to say. In Pennsylvania it first arrives from 

 the north about the middle of October; flies in loose scattered 

 flocks; is strongly attached to flat, newly-ploughed fields, com- 

 mons, and such like situations; has a feeble note characteristic 

 of its tribe; runs rapidly along the ground; and when the flock 

 takes to wing they fly high, and generally to a considerable dis- 

 tance before they alight. Many of them continue in the neigh- 



* This bird is common to Europe and America, and as many nominal spe- 

 cies have been made of it we quote the following synonymes from Prince Mu- 

 signano's observations in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia vol. iv, p. 1823. 



Synonymes of the American specimens: Jllauda rubra, GMEL. LATH. 

 Jllauda ludoviciana, GMEI. LATH. Jllauda pensylvanica, Bmss. Farlouzanne, 

 BUFF. Ols. Alouette aux joues brunes de Pensylvanie, BUFF. Ois, Lark from 

 Pennsylvania, EDW. Glean, pi. 297. Red Lark, PENN. Brit, and Jlrct. Zool. 

 LATH. Syn. Louisiana Lark, LATH. Syn. 



Synonymes of the European specimens: Anthus aquaticus, BECHST. METER. 

 VIEILL. nouv. diet. TEMM. Jllauda spinoletta, LIJTH. (Ought not this specific 

 name to be restored?) Jllauda campestris @. spinoletta, GMEI. LATH. Jllauda 

 obscura. GMEL. LATH, (young). Jllauda petrosa, MONTAGU, Trans. Linn. Snc. 

 Land, (young) Jlnthusrupestris, Nitssox, Orn. Suec.Jllouettepipi. (by error) 

 BUFF. PI. Enl. 661. /. 2. Meadow Lark var. A. LATH. Syn. Dusky Lark, LATH. 

 Syn, (young). Jlnthus montanus, KOCH. Bayerische Zool. The latter nominal 

 species, as Temminck observes, was formed of an adult male, as it appears 

 during the few days of breeding, when they have a roseate tint on the neck, 

 breast, upper part of the belly and flanks. 

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