WOOD-LARK. 
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Gilbert White seems to have been well-acquainted with 
the bird, though it is now commonly overlooked by many 
observers, being often confounded with the tree-pipit. In 
a footnote to the above quotation he remarks that "on 
hot summer nights woodlarks soar to a prodigious height, 
and hang singing in the air." 
The bird was also known to another Hampshire poet 
and lover of birds, if we may assume that Charles Kingsley 
was recording his own observations, when he writes in the 
"Charm of Birds" : "above the tree-tops, rising, hovering, 
sinking, the woodlark is fluting, tender and low." 
Munn does not consider it a usual habit of this bird to 
sing at night, any more than it is of the sky-lark, for he has 
heard the latter singing at that time, though not the 
former. 
Bury considered the bird abundant in the north side of 
the Isle of Wight, but More calls it "one of our most un- 
common birds," though he mentions Bembridge as a locality 
for the nest. 
Wise evidently did not know the bird from observation, 
but records a nest found by Mr. Rake on Goreley race- 
course, near Fordingbridge, on the 2nd of April, 1 86 1, with 
three eggs. 
Kelsall has seen it occasionally in the nesting-season in 
his present parish, but much more commonly in the winter. 
Mr. Willmore reported it as nesting near Stockbridge, 
and Miss Yonge associates it with Otterbourne and Cran- 
bury. Mr. Sutton Davies confirms the reference to Otter- 
bourne. 
Bell enters it in his list for Selborne and Alton, on his 
own authority and that of Mr. Curtis. Colonel Irby has 
met with it in Wolmcr Forest, and Mr. Stares found two 
nests near Titchfield in 1889. 
