WOOD LARK. 459 
INSESSORES. ALAUDIDA, 
CONIROSTRES. 
THE WOOD LARK. 
Alauda arborea, 
Alauda arborea, Wood Lark, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 479. 
5 3 os i Monraavu, Ornith. Dict. 
Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 227. 
Fem. Brit. An. p. 79. 
Sexsy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 276. 
Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 127. 
na aA 35 69 Gov tp, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 
Alouette lulu, TemM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 282. 
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Tur Woop Lark is immediately distinguished from the 
Sky Lark by its smaller size, its shorter tail, and by a 
conspicuous light brown streak over each eye and ear- 
-coverts. Itis by no means so plentiful a species as the 
Sky Lark; and in some localities in this country, even 
of very considerable extent, it is not found at all. It 
prefers hedge-bound meadows, cultivated lands, and corn- 
fields, that are interspersed with copses, plantations, and 
small woods, and is seldom found on those open exposed 
