Locality. 
Nest, &c. 
222 PASSERES. ALAUDA. Sxy-Lark. 
Feld Lerche, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 755.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
v. 1. p. 260.—Frisch, t. 15. £. 1. 
Sky Lark, Br. Zool. 1. No. 136.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 394. A.—Lewin’s Br. 
Birds, 3. t. 89.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 368. 1.—Alb. 1. t. 41.—Wale. Syn. t. 189. 
—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 77.—Low’s Fauna Orcad. p. 65.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, v. 1. p. t. 178. 
Common Field or Sky Lark, Will. (Angl.) p. 203. 
Provincial, Lavrock. 
This well known and delightful songster is very generally 
distributed. throughout all the cultivated parts of Great Bri- 
tain. The situations most favourable to its increase seem to 
be the more open and uninclosed arable lands; as it is seldom 
observed to frequent, in any mumbers, moors or extensive 
commons, far removed from the cultivated districts. Its geo- 
graphical distribution embraces the whole of Europe within 
the temperate zone, many parts of Asia, and the north of 
Africa, 
The song of the Lark possesses great variety of inflection, 
and many of the notes are sweetly modulated. There is also 
a wildness of expression in it, which, in connection with the 
height from whence it comes, and a bright and cloudless 
morning, produces a striking effect. 
It sings as it rises Farpendiculadiy| in a spiral direction, and 
frequently reaches to such a height as to become invisible. 
Its descent is usually oblique, but it sometimes drops perpen- 
dicularly, and with great rapidity, from its aérial station. It 
commences its song of invitation early in the spring, at which 
time, and during the greater part of the summer, it continues 
to enliven our fields with its notes of joy, from the first dawn 
of morning, and at intervals through the day. It constructs 
its nest about the latter part of April, or the beginning of 
May, and its first brood is, in general, fully fledged by the 
end of June. A second family is usually produced, which is 
able to fly in August.—The nest, composed of different ve- 
getable stalks, and lined with fine dry grasses, is placed upon 
the ground amongst the corn or herbage ; and contains four - 
or five eggs, of a greenish-white colour, spotted with clove or 
purplish-brown. 
