INTRODUCTION.

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145. ALAUDA ARBOREA .
Woop-Lark.
A cheery little songster, very local in its habitat, breeds in many of the English counties ; supposed to
A cheery gster, '
migrate from us to the southward in the winter; but Mr. Blake Knox states that it is abundant at that
eason in the county of Dublin, and also that it breeds there. It is about as numerous in Scotland as it is
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in England; and Mr. Harting states it has been found as far north as the Orkney Islands.

Genus Gavenira.
146. GaLertra cristata. ; . : : : : : ; : : Vol. III. Pl. XVIT.

Crestep Lark.

A bird of France and many other parts of the European continent, and even of other more distant
countries. Although common on the roads between Calais and Boulogne, it seldom crosses the Channel to
pay Albion’s shores a visit; here, indeed, it is so scarce that it must be enumerated among our accidental
visitors.

Genus Oroconis.

Of this ornamental section of the Larks there are about ten known species, six or seven inhabiting the
Old World, and three the New. All are more or less ornamented with small pencilled plumes springing
from above the eye, and have much of their plumage suffused with yellow and pinky brown. Their head

quarters are Eastern Europe, Palestine, Afghanistan, the Altai, and the highlands of Asia generally.

147. Orocorts ALPESTRIS

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Suore-Lark.

Lhis bird has appeared here so frequently of late that it may almost be termed a regular winter visitant.

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Lord Lilford has recorded, in the < Zoologist for 1852, an instance of its nesting in Devonshire.

Genus MELANocorypna.

A little or  thick-hj Brat iets : . : ; i
Sroup of thick-billed Larks, comprising five or six species ; almost exclusively inhabit the central

and eastern regions of Asja.

148, MELANocorypna CALANDRA

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CaLanpra Lark,