. A dictionary of birds . the winter of 1867-68, 1,255,500 Larks, valued at £2260, weretaken into the town of Dieppe.^ The same thing happens invarious places almost every year, and many persons are apt tobelieve that thereby the species is threatened with , however, it is considered that, if these birds were left tocontinue their wanderings, a large proportion would die of hungerbefore reaching a place that would supply them Avith food, andthat of the remainder an enormous proportion would perish at seain their vain attempt to find a settlement, it must be acknowledgedthat man
. A dictionary of birds . the winter of 1867-68, 1,255,500 Larks, valued at £2260, weretaken into the town of Dieppe.^ The same thing happens invarious places almost every year, and many persons are apt tobelieve that thereby the species is threatened with , however, it is considered that, if these birds were left tocontinue their wanderings, a large proportion would die of hungerbefore reaching a place that would supply them Avith food, andthat of the remainder an enormous proportion would perish at seain their vain attempt to find a settlement, it must be acknowledgedthat man by his wholesale massacres, which at first seem so brutal,is but anticipating the act of Nature, and on the whole probablythe fate of the Larks at his hands is not worse than that whichthey would encounter did not his devices intervene. The Skylarks range extends across the Old World from thera?roes to the Kurile Islands. In Avinter it occurs in North China,Nepal, the Punjab, Persia, Palestine, Lower Egy|)t. and Skylarks—Alanda agresiis and A. arvensis. (From Dresser.) It sometimes strays to Madeira, and has been killed in Bermuda,though its unassisted appearance there is doubtful. It has been^ See Yarrell {HlsL Br. Birds, ed. 4, i. pp. 618-621), wliere particular refer-ences to the above statements, and some otliers, are given. LARK 509 successfully introduced on Long Island in the State of New York,and into New Zealand—where it may possibly become as trouble-some a denizen as are other subjects upon which AcclimatizationSocieties have exercised their meddling activity. Allied to theSkylark a considerable number of species have been described, ofAvhich Dr. Sharpe {Cat. B. Br. Mus. xiii. pp. 566-579) deems onlytwo to be valid, besides a supposed local race, Alauda agrestis, notrecognized by him, the difference between which and the normalbird (stated at length in Mr. Dressers Birds of Europe, 310, 311) is shewn above. The WooDLARK, the Alauda arhorea of mo
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