SHORE LARK. 
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SHORE LARK. 
{Mauda alpestris , Lin. Wilson, i. p. 85. pi. 5. fig. 4. [female]. Phil. 
Museum, No. 5190.) 
Sp. Charact. — Reddish-grey, inclining to brown; beneath, except 
the sides, whitish; throat and stripe over the eye pale-yellow; 
a broad patch on the breast, and another under and through each 
eye, with the lateral tail-feathers black ; the two outer exteriorly 
white. — Female with the front yellowish, and with black and 
brown on the top of the head, the black collar on the throat small- 
er, and the tail terminated by a narrow whitish band. 
This beautiful species is common to the north of both 
the old and new continent, but, as in some other instan- 
ces already remarked, the Shore Lark extends its migra- 
tions much further over America than over Europe and 
Asia. Our bird was met with in the Arctic regions by 
the late adventurous voyagers, and Mr. Bullock saw 
them in the winter around the city of Mexico, so that 
in their migrations over this continent they spread them- 
selves across the whole habitable Northern hemisphere to 
the very equator ; while in Europe, according to the care- 
ful observations of Temminck, they are unknown to the 
south of Germany. Pallas met with these birds round 
Lake Baikal and on the Wolga, in the 53d degree of lati- 
tude. Westward they have also been seen in the inte- 
rior of the United States, along the shores of the Mis- 
souri. 
As yet the nest of this wandering species is unknown* 
and must probably be sought only in the coldest and 
most desolate of regions. They arrive in the Northern 
and Middle States late in the fall or commencement of 
winter, in New England they are seen early in October, 
and disappear generally on the approach of the deep storms 
of snow, though straggling parties are still found nearly 
throughout the winter. In the other States to the South 
