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SHORE LARK. 
to Asia and Europe. The specimens which are 
now and then picked up in Britain can only be 
looked upon as haviug strayed, or been driven 
from their migratory courses. In most of its 
localities it is migratory, and we have notices of 
its occurrence in the Arctic Regions, by the 
authors of the Northern Zoology, and a very 
interesting account of its manners in summer by 
Mr Audubon.* That ornithologist found them 
breeding on the coasts and islands of Labrador. 
Like the others, the song is sweet, warbled when 
on the wing, and occasionally on the ground. 
The nest is placed on the moss-covered ground, 
and “ is disposed with so much care, while the 
moss so much resembles the bird in hue, that 
unless you almost tread upon her as she sits, she 
seems to feel secure, and remains unmoved. It 
is imbedded in the moss to its edges, which are 
composed of fine grasses, circularly disposed, and 
forming a bed about two inches thick, with a 
lining of grouse feathers, and those of other birds. 
The eggs are four or five in number, large, gray- 
ish, and covered with numerous pale blue and 
brown spots."-f- 
In a specimen before us from North America, 
the upper parts are hair brown, the centre of each 
feather darker, and tinged upon the nape with 
pale hyacinth red. The shoulders and rump are 
hyacinth red, the feathers having pale edges. 
The wings and tail are blackish brown, having the 
Orn. Biog. ii. p. 570. 
t Ibid. 
