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LARK (0. Eng. ldwerce, Ger. Lerche, See also: bird's name used in a rather general sense, the specific meaning being signified by a prefix, as skylark, titlark, woodlark
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It seems to be nearly conterminous with the Latin Alauda as used by older authors; and, though this was to some extent limited by See also: Linnaeus, several of the See also: species included by him under the genus he so designated have long since been referred elsewhere
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By Englishmen the word lark, used without qualification, almost invariably means the skylark, Alauda arvensis, which, as the best-known and most widely spread species through-out See also: Europe, has been invariably considered the type of the genus
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Of all birds it holds unquestionably the foremost place in See also: English literature
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It is one of the most favourite cage birds, as it will live for many years in captivity, and, except in the season of See also: moult, will pour forth its thrilling See also: song many times in an See also: hour for See also: weeks or months together
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The skylark is probably the most plentiful of the class in western Europe
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Not only does it frequent almost all unwooded districts in that quarter of the globe, but, unlike most birds, its numbers increase with the spread of agricultural improvement
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Nesting chiefly in the growing corn, its eggs and See also: young are protected in a See also: great measure from molestation; and, as each pair of birds will See also: rear several broods
it importance in the military See also: history of See also: Italy from the Hannibalic See also: wars onwards
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The See also: town was a municipium, situated on the See also: main road to the S.E., which See also: left the See also: coast at Histonium (See also: Vasto) and ran from Larinum E. to Sipontum
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From Larinum a branch road ran to See also: Bovianum Vetus
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Remains of its city walls, of its amphitheatre and also of See also: baths, &c., exist, and it did not cease to be inhabited until after the See also: earthquake of 1300, when the See also: modern city was established
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Cluentius, the client of See also: Cicero, who delivered a speech in his favour, was a native of Larinum, his See also: father having been praetor of the allied forces in the Social War
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