LARK. 269 



3.— WOOD LARK. 



Alauda arborea, Ind. Orn. ii. 492. Lin. i. 287. Faun. suec. No. 211. Gm. Lin. i. 



793. Scop. i. No. 18G. Brun. No. 224. 225. Muller, No. 231. Kramer, 362. 3. 



Frisch, t. 15. f. 2. A. Rail, 69. A. 2. Will. 149. t. 40. #/«'», 71. 2. Zd. StoB. 



13. t. 15. f. 4. a— c. Id. Ov. 24 t. 9. f. 5. Borowsk. iii. 198. GVrin. iv. t. 372. 



2. GwnfA. t. 9. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 163. Id. Ed. ii. 283. 

 Baumlerche, Naturf. xvii. 78. 

 L'Alouette de Bois, ou Cujulier, Bitf.v. 25. 

 Tottovilla, e Lodola di Pvato, Olin. uc. t. p. 27. 

 Wood Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 371. Br. Zool. i. 137. Id.fol. 94. t. Q. f. 3. Id. Ed. 1812. 



p. 479. Arct. Zool. ii. 395. B. Alb. i. pi. 42. Id. Song Birds, pi. p. 46. Will. 



Engl. 204. pi. 40. Collins, Birds, pi. 5. f. 5. & pi. 11. f. 7. Bewick, i. pi. . 



183. iewin, iii. t. 90. Walcot, ii. 1. 190. Pult. Cat. Dors. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



Shaiv's Zool. x. p. 506. pi. 47. 



THIS species is scarcely so large as the Skylark, and of a shorter 

 and more bulky shape, in length very little more than six inches, 

 weight less than an ounce. In plumage not unlike the Skylark, 

 but in general more pale, and inclined to rufous ; round the head a 

 kind of wreath, paler in colour, and more conspicuous than in the 

 first species, in which this mark is rather obscure ; the feathers of 

 the crown, too, are somewhat elongated ; the coverts over the ears 

 are brown, and beneath them another light stroke ; the under parts 

 yellowish white, inclining to brown on the fore part of the neck and 

 breast, which are marked with dusky spots; tail very short, even at 

 the end, the feathers rounded, the outer one dusky, with the outmost 

 half dusky white, obliquely divided ; the second the same, but the 

 white occupying less space ; the third and fourth with only a trian- 

 gular mark of white at the tip ; the fifth the same, but the spot at 

 the end rufous white ; the two middle ones dusky brown, with paler 

 edges ; the wings, when closed, reach to near half an inch of the end 

 of it. In this species the first quill is shorter than the second ; but 



