. The sportsman's British bird book . Its food consists of seeds, insects, and small marineanimals. Till recentl\- the Siberian white-winged lark {Mclauocorypha sihiricaor Alauda sihirica) was known as a British straggler only by a single. LARK 547 individual taken in Sussex in 1869, but two others were recordedrespectively from that count} and Kent in 1902. The species is amember of a group of large larks, with stout beaks and more pointedwings, in which the secondaries do not reach the tips of the distinctive feature of the present species is the presence of abri
. The sportsman's British bird book . Its food consists of seeds, insects, and small marineanimals. Till recentl\- the Siberian white-winged lark {Mclauocorypha sihiricaor Alauda sihirica) was known as a British straggler only by a single. LARK 547 individual taken in Sussex in 1869, but two others were recordedrespectively from that count} and Kent in 1902. The species is amember of a group of large larks, with stout beaks and more pointedwings, in which the secondaries do not reach the tips of the distinctive feature of the present species is the presence of abright rusty red shoulder-patch, formed by the lesser and primary wing-coverts. There is no evidence that the South European calandra-lark(J/, calandra) has ever been taken in the British Islands. Lark ^^ ^^^ ^ of such a familiar and favourite species (Alauda arvensis). ^^ ^^^ l^^ ^^ sky-lark, anything in the way ofdescription seems almost superfluous, but the follow-ing brief diagnosis may be advisable. Except for the dull whitebreast and abdomen, the general colouring is brown, with streaks ofdarker brown on the upper-parts, and lance-like spots ofthe latter on the front of theneck; the first primary quill isminute, and the cla
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