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See also:LARK (0. Eng. ldwerce, Ger. Lerche, See also:Dan. Laerke, Dutch Leeuwerik) , a See also:bird's name used in a rather See also:general sense, the specific meaning being signified by a prefix, as skylark, titlark, woodlark . 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 See also:long since been referred elsewhere . By Englishmen the word See also: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 . Of all birds it holds unquestionably the foremost See also:place in See also:English literature . It is one of the most favourite cage birds, as it will live for many years in captivity, and, except in the See also: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 . The skylark is probably the most plentiful of the class in western Europe . Not only does it frequent almost all unwooded districts in that See also:quarter of the globe, but, unlike most birds, its See also:numbers increase with the spread of agricultural improvement . Nesting chiefly in the growing See also: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 . The See also:town was a See also: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 . From Larinum a See also:branch road ran to See also:Bovianum Vetus . Remains of its See also:city walls, of its See also: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 . 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 See also:praetor of the allied forces in the Social See also:War . (T . |
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