86 TREATISE ON 



THE TITLARK. 



ALAUDA PRATENSIS ; LINNAEUS. l'aLOUETTE DE 



PRES ; BUFFON. 



The Titlark has been often confounded with 

 the fieldlark and pipet ; but it is smaller than ei- 

 ther of these birds ; it is, besides, very common, 

 and frequents barren situations. In Scotland, it 

 is almost the only bird found upon the vast ex- 

 tended heaths amongst which it breeds. 



We have often seen them upon Arthur's Seat 

 and Salisbury Crags, near Edinburgh; likewise 

 on the Calton-Hill, on which is now built part of 

 that city ; and there, before the public walks, &c. 

 were made, we have found its nest. This bird, 

 like most of the lark genus, sings on the wing, 

 springing up, hovering a little, and then descend- 

 ing slowly, warbling till it reaches the ground, 

 which it does with a kind of sweep and a jerk of 

 the tail as it alights. Its natural song is sweet, 



