. A dictionary of birds . e ^vinter 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 hungeriDefore 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 . e ^vinter 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 hungeriDefore 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 Avholesale massacres, which at first seem so brutal,is but anticipating the act of Nature, and on the Avhole 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 theFseroes to the Kurile Islands. In winter it occurs in North China,Nepal, the Punjab, Persia, Palestine, Lower Egypt, and .Skylarks—Alauda agrcstis and A. urvcnsis. (From Dresser.) It sometimes strays to Madeira, and has been killed in Bermutla,though its unassisted appearance there is doubtful. It has l>cen See Yarrell {Hist. Br. Birds, ed. 4, i. pp. 618-621), where particular refer-ences to the above statements, and some others, 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, ofwhich Dr. Sharpe {Gat. B. Br. Mus. xiii. pp. 566-579) deems onlytwo to be valid, besides a supposed local race, Alcmda agrestis, notrecognized by him, the difference between Avhich and the normalbird (stated at length in Mr. Dressers Birds of Europe, 310, 311) is shewn above. The WooDLARK, the Alauda ariorea o
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