July, grasshoppers, worms, and com; August, crickets 
and grasshoppers ; September, insects, corn, and seeds of 
weeds ; October to December, seed corn, worms and berries. 
It will be seen from this list that there is no month in which 
these birds are altogether injurious, and on the whole, 
perhaps, they do more good than harm. 
Owing to its habit of alighting at some little distance from 
its nest, and then threading its way to it through the herbage, 
the home of the Skylark is 
not very easily found. It is 
always situated in a small 
hollow in the ground, or in 
an old rut made by a cart- 
wheel, and is com- 
posed of dry grass, 
lined with finer 
