SKY LARK. 4.4.7 
INSESSORES. ALAUDIDE. 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE SKY LARK. 
Alauda arvensis. 
Alauda arvensis, Sky Lark, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 475. 
os 35 BA 5 Monracu, Ornith. Dict. 
” 9 D6 Bewickx. Brit. Birds, yol. i. p. 216. 
a a Field Lark, Fur. Brit. An. p. 79. 
os pe Sky ss SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 273. 
ss 3 an Ps Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 127. 
A 5 - * GouLp, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 
os AS Alouette des champs, TEMM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 281. 
Tue Sky Lark is so abundant as a species, so universal 
a favourite, and its various qualities are so well understood 
and appreciated, as to require little more than a general 
reference here to the poimts of greatest interest in its 
history. It is an inhabitant of most, if not all, the 
