LVSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



SKY LARK. 



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 ALAUDIDJE. 



THE SKY LARK. 



Alauda arvensis. 



Ahtuda arvensis, Sky Lark, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 475. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 216. 



Field Lark, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 79. 



Sky SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 273. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 127. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Alauette des champs, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 281, 



THE SKY LARK is so abundant as a species, so universal 

 a favourite, and its various qualities are so well understood 

 and appreciated, as to require little more than a general 

 reference here to the points of greatest interest in its 

 history. It is an inhabitant of most, if not all, the 



