. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . is very widely dis-tributed over the British Islands it is nowherecommon, and is decidedly one of the most local ofour indigenous birds. It is pretty generally dis-persed over the southern counties of England fromDevonshire to Kent, and northwards to Gloucester-shire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk. Beyond theselimits its localness increases, although it may betraced here and there as far as the Lake Scotland it is known only to have bred inStirlingshire; whilst in Ireland, although -aid tobe a resident, its dist
. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . is very widely dis-tributed over the British Islands it is nowherecommon, and is decidedly one of the most local ofour indigenous birds. It is pretty generally dis-persed over the southern counties of England fromDevonshire to Kent, and northwards to Gloucester-shire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk. Beyond theselimits its localness increases, although it may betraced here and there as far as the Lake Scotland it is known only to have bred inStirlingshire; whilst in Ireland, although -aid tobe a resident, its distribution remains at presentpractically undetermined. There can be little doubtthat in many localities the present species isoverlooked. Outside the British limits we find theWood-Lark generally, yet still locally, distributedover Central and Southern Europe. In the westit is not known to breed regularly north of °, whilst in the east the valley of the Volgaappears to mark its northern and eastern the more northern districts it is a summer visitor178. Ki^ CptvK^^v^ Wool THE WOOD-LARK 179 only. In the south of Europe, in Asia Minor, theCaucasus and North-west Persia it is principallyknown as a winter migrant, but some ascend themountains in these countries during of the Mediterranean, although perhaps bestknown during winter, it certainly breeds in Algeriaand other parts of North-west Africa. If the observer with but a slight knowledgeof birds bears in mind certain very perceptiblecharacteristics of the Wood-Lark he will not readilyconfuse it with any other species. These are itsmuch shorter tail, giving the bird a very dumpylook, especially when flying, its partiality for well-wooded districts, and its constant habit of perchingin trees. The favourite haunts of the Wood-Lark,however, are not woods—^so far the birds name is amisleading one, and Tree-Lark would be farmore expressive. The bird loves to frequent openlocalities over which plenty
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