Dupont's Lark - Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Dupont's Lark was originally described by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1820. This bird was named after the French naturalist Leonard Puech Dupont, who was the first to collect a specimen.

There are two races. C. d. duponti of Europe and northwest Africa is mainly brown-grey above and pale below. C. d. margaritae, which occupies most of the rest of the African range, has rufous upperparts.