. A history of British birds . treaks; the breast and lower parts dullochreous-white, deepest in hue on the flanks. In this stagethe bird nearly resembles the more typical Larks. This species was originally separated from the genusA/auda in 1828 by Friedrich Boie, under the name of Eremo-jphila; but Eremophihis having been previously applied to agenus of fishes by Humboldt, that name was, according tousage, dropped, and the eldest Brehm, in 1831, proposedinstead PMleremus — a name equally objectionable sinceLatreille had already established it as that of a genus ofinsects. Bonapartes Otocorys
. A history of British birds . treaks; the breast and lower parts dullochreous-white, deepest in hue on the flanks. In this stagethe bird nearly resembles the more typical Larks. This species was originally separated from the genusA/auda in 1828 by Friedrich Boie, under the name of Eremo-jphila; but Eremophihis having been previously applied to agenus of fishes by Humboldt, that name was, according tousage, dropped, and the eldest Brehm, in 1831, proposedinstead PMleremus — a name equally objectionable sinceLatreille had already established it as that of a genus ofinsects. Bonapartes Otocorys therefore stands, though thereis some doubt as to the year in which it was first applied * * Bonaparte and G. R. Gray after him assign 1839 as the date, but the earliestuse of the word appears to be in the Introduction to the formers Fauna Italicaas above cited (page 604, note), and this from internal evidence must liave beenwritten after Keyserling and Blasiuss Wirbelthiere Europas which bearsdate 1840. : ALAUDlDsE. Alauda arvensis, Linnaeus THE SKYLARK. Aland auaa arvensis. Alauda, Linnaeusf.— Bill rather long, slightly compressed at the edges, uppermandilile more or less arched from the middle and without notch. Nostrilsbasal, oval, covered by bristly feathers directed forwards. Gape straight. Headwith feathers on the occiput elongated and forming a decided crest. Wingslong: first primary short but unmistakably developed; second, third and fourthnearly equal, but the third longest; secondaries and tertials comparatively longand emarginate at the tip, the latter about as long as the sixth primary. Tailmoderate and slightly forked. Tarsus blunt and scutellated behind as well asbefore, longer than the middle toe; claws slightly curved and moderate, exceptthat of the hind toe which is greatly elongated and nearly straight. The Skylark is so abundant, so well known and so uni-versal a favourite, as to require little more than a generalreference here to the points of
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