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POPULAE HISTORY OF EIRDS. 
tent, their cheerful notes recalling to our memories a more 
genial clime"^/^ We can hardly enter into the joy experi- 
enced in so dreary a place by hearing such a sweet-noted 
and lively visitant. 
The place of our skylark is somewhat supplied in Aus- 
tralia by two or three birds belonging to a genus called 
CindorampJms. One of these [C, rufescens) is even named 
Singing Lark by the colonists : it often reminds them of the 
sweet soaring warbler, who, most frequently unseen, cheered 
them and its mate in days gone by. This bird spends 
much of its time on the ground, from which it mounts per- 
pendicularly in the air ; and then descending, flies hori- 
zontally from one tree to another, singing all the time with 
great volubilityt. Another species of bird [Mirafra Hors- 
fteldii) is still more like our skylark in form, and frequently 
mounts high in the air, singing most melodiously all the while. 
There are other larks besides our famed species w^ho take 
vertical flights into the air J. Dr. Andrew Smith observed 
* Additional Papers relative to the Arctic Expedition, pp. 68, 69. 
t Gould's ' Birds of Australia/ vol. iii. 
\ " And drown'd in yonder living blue, 
The lark becomes a sightless song." 
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam cxiv. 2. 
