THE SHORE LARK. 



Alauda alpsstris. 

 Alaada cornuta. 



T is a very regrettable circum- 

 stance that the appearances 

 of the Shore Lark in this 

 country should be so few and 

 far between, as it is an active 

 and sprightly bird, inter- 

 esting in its habits, and 

 handsome in plumage. In 

 Mr. Morris's well-known 

 work on " Birds " only four 

 instances are enumerated in 

 which it had been met with 

 in Great Britain, but doubt- 

 less, as with many other song- 

 sters of reputed rarity, its 

 extreme scarceness may 

 more properly be attributed 

 to the laxity of ornitholo- 

 gical observation than to 

 actual fact. 



The Shore Lark may be 

 met with almost every year in 

 the neighbourhood of Brigh- 

 ton, also about Dover, and 



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