. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . s nestamong the moss and lichens, and rearing a brood of four orfive. In the beginning of August they unite into small flocks,and in about a month after proceed southward, to return in thebeginning of June. The males sing in the air, performingshort excursions for the purpose, and sometimes also on theground. It feeds on insects, minute shell-f
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . s nestamong the moss and lichens, and rearing a brood of four orfive. In the beginning of August they unite into small flocks,and in about a month after proceed southward, to return in thebeginning of June. The males sing in the air, performingshort excursions for the purpose, and sometimes also on theground. It feeds on insects, minute shell-fish, blossoms, andseeds, and associates with the Brown Pipit. It thus in itshabits, as well as its size and proportions, bears a great resem-blance to the Sky Lark, which in winter often associates, inmoist or marshy places remaining unfrozen, with the Meadowand Rock Pipits. Young.—In their first plumage the young have the billlight reddish-yellow, the feet flesh-coloured, the upper partsdark brown mottled with brownish-yellow, the lower partspale yellowish-grey, the lower part of the neck anteriorly lightreddish-brown mottled with dusky. 163 ALAUDA ARVENSIS. THE SKY LARK. FIELD LARK. COMMON LARK. LAVEROCK. UISEAG. ./#fe-^MC^ #^:;, ,.<&.
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