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SKY LARK. 



LATROCK. FIELD LARK. 



Alauda arvensis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



' vulgaris, WILLUGHBY. HAY. 



Alauda A Lark. Arvensis Of, or appertaining to fields. 



Tins universal favourite is a native of the whole of the 

 continent of Europe, but appears to be unknown in Iceland, 

 Greenland, or the Ferroe Islands. The greater part of those 

 which are seen in Russia, Siberia, Denmark, Sweden, and 

 Norway, in the summer, leave for the more genial climate of 

 Greece and Italy, before the wintry blasts begin to sweep 

 over the lands of the frozen north: it is also known in Asia 

 Minor, and other parts of the Asiatic continent, and in ' the 

 northern parts of Africa. 



In this country it is very abundant from north to south. 



The Lark is to be found in all situations, but particularly, 

 in the winter half of the year, in ploughed or stubble fields, 

 especially, in the latter case, when they are sown with clover 

 seeds. 



In the 'British Song Birds,' a doubt is expressed as to 

 whether the Lark almost entirely quits the north for the south 

 in the winter; but I can only say that there are hundreds 

 to be seen in Yorkshire in almost every large field, even in 

 the severest weather; the same large flocks into which they 

 have begun to collect towards the end of autumn. Even in 

 the Orkney, and no doubt therefore in the Shetland Islands 

 too, they do not seem to quit for more southern regions, on 

 the approach of winter, unless it be in, or rather before, some 



