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SKY LARK, 
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LAYROCK. FIELD LARK. 
Alauda arvensis, 
“ vulgaris, 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Willughby. Ray. 
Alauda —A Lark. 
Arvensis —Of, or appertaining to fields. 
This universal favourite is a native of the whole of the 
continent of Europe, but appears to he unknown in Iceland, 
Greenland, or the Ferroe Islands. The greater part of those 
which are seen in Russia, Siberia, Denmark, Sweden, and 
Norway, in the summer, leave for the more genial climate of 
Greece and Itaty, before the wintry blasts begin to sweep 
over the lands of the frozen north: it is also known in Asia 
Minor, and other parts of the Asiatic continent, and in the 
northern parts of Africa. 
In this country it is very abundant from north to south. 
The Lark is to be found in all situations, but particularly, 
in the winter half of the year, in ploughed or stubble fields, 
especially, in the latter case, when they are sown with clover 
seeds. 
In the ‘British Song Birds,’ a doubt is expressed as to 
whether the Lark almost entirely quits the north for the south 
in the winter; but I can only say that there are hundreds 
to be seen in Yorkshire in almost every large field, even in 
the severest weather; the same large flocks into which they 
have begun to collect towards the end of autumn. Even in 
the Orkney, and no doubt therefore in the Shetland Islands 
too, they do not seem to quit for more southern regions, on 
the approach of winter, unless it be in, or rather before, some 
