Class II. 



WOOD LARK. 



479 



Alauda arborea. A. varia, ca- 



pitevltta annulari alba cinc- 



to. Lath. Ind. orn, 492. 



id. Syn. iv. p. 370. 

 Tottavilla, Olina, 27. 

 Wil. orn. 204. 

 Ttaii Syn. av. Qg. 

 L' Alouette de Bois ou le Cu- 



jelier. Brisson av. iii. 340. 



Tah. 20. fg. 1. Hist. 



d'Ois. V. 25. PL Enl. 66O. 



f.2. 



Alauda arborea. Gm. Lin. 793. 

 Faun. Siiec. sp. 211. 

 Ludllerche, Waldlerche Kram . 



362. 

 Danis Skov-Lerke, Cimlris 



Heede-Leker, Lyng-Lreke. 



Br. 224. . -..i . 



Zippa. Scopoli, No. 186. 

 Br. Zool. 94. plate O /. 3. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 87. 



2. Wood. 



X HIS bird is inferior in size to the sky lark, 

 and is of a shorter thicker form; the colors 

 are paler; its note less sonorous and varied, 

 though not less sweet. These and the follow- r 



ing characters, may serve at once to distinguish 

 it from the common kind : it perches on trees ; 

 it whistles like the black-bird j the crown of Descrip- 

 the head, and the back, are marked with large ^^^^; 

 black spots edged with pale reddish brown ; the 

 head is surrounded with a whitish coronet of 

 feathers, reaching from eye to eye; the throat 

 is of yellowish white, spotted with black : the 

 breast is tinged with red ; the belly white ; the 

 coverts of the wings are brown, edged with 

 white and dull yellow; the quil feathers dusky; 

 the exterior edges of the three first white ; of the 



