IKSESSORES. 

 CONIROSTRES. 



WOOD LARK. 



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ALAUDIDM. 







THE WOOD LARK. 



Alauda arbor ea. 



arborea, Wood Lark, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 479. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 227. 



,, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 79. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 276. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 127. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Alouette lulu, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 282. 



THE WOOD LARK is immediately distinguished from the 

 Sky Lark by its smaller size, its shorter tail, and by a 

 conspicuous light brown streak over each eye and ear- 

 coverts. It is by no means so plentiful a species as the 

 Sky Lark ; and in some localities in this country, even 

 of very considerable extent, it is not found at all. It 

 prefers hedge-bound meadows, cultivated lands, and corn- 

 fields, that are interspersed with copses, plantations, and 

 small woods, and is seldom found on those open exposed 



