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selves in the dust. They sing during their perpendicular 

 ascent in the air ; and make their nests upon the ground. 

 They are easily distinguished from the Pipits, or Lark-hke 

 warblers, by the form of the head, and by the conical bill, 

 as well as by other essential characters ; and they differ from 

 these last as much in their peculiar habits. 



SKY-LARK. 



Alauda arvensis, Linn. 

 PLATE L. Fig. 1. 



Alauda arvensis, Linn. Syst. p. 287. 1 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 791' sp. 1 Lath. 



Ind.Ornith. 2. p. 491. 1. 

 Alauda vulgaris, Rait Syn. p. 69. A. 1 — Will. p. 149. t. 40. Briss. 3. 



p. 335. 1. 

 L'Alouette ordinaire, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 1. t. 1 — Id. PI. Enl. 363. f. 1. 

 Alouette des Champs, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 281. 

 Feld Lerche, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 755. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



V. 1. 2m.—Frisch. t. 15. f. 1. 

 Sky Lark, Br. Zool. 1. No. 136 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 394. A Lewin's Br. 



Birds, 3. t. 89 — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 368. 1 — Alb. 1. 1. 41 — Wale. Syn. t. 189. 



— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 77 — Low's Fauna Oread, p. 65. — Bewick's Br. 



Birds, V. 1. p. t. 178. 

 Common Field or Sky-Lark, Will. (AngL) p. 203. 



Provincial — Lavrock. 



This well known and delightful songster is very generally 

 distributed throughout all the cultivated parts of Great Bri- 

 tain. The situations most favourable to its increase seem 

 to be the more open and uninclosed arable lands ; as it is 

 seldom observed to frequent, in any numbers, moors or ex- 

 tensive commons, far removed from the cultivated districts. 

 Its geographical distribution embraces the whole of Europe 

 within the temperate zone, many parts of Asia, and the north 

 of Africa. 



The song of the Lark possesses great variety of inflection, 

 and many of the notes are sweetly modulated. There is also 

 a wildness of expression in it, which, in connection with the 



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