Western Shore Lark

“Here, reader, is another of those species which, by its general habits as well as appearance, I did not notice until this moment; afraid, indeed, of promulgating an error myself before the world of naturalists that exist, and who do not excuse an error, unless indeed that error is committed by themselves. Now, however, that years have elapsed, and that in the meantime I have had ample opportunities of watching this species, and of comparing it with our Mauda alpestris, I have not hesitated to figure it, and present it to you as a good species, not hitherto placed in my works on the ornithology of our country.”

John James Audubon, Birds of America (New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier, 1840-1844), vol. 7, p. 353.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.