There are two or three species, but all with very similar habits, though, as usual, the French classifiers have separated them into distinct genera."
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
The bird among us that is usually called a lark, namely, the meadowlark, but which our later classifiers say is no lark at all, has nearly the same quality of voice as the English skylark,-loud, piercing, z-z-ing; and during the mating season it frequently indulges while on the wing in a brief song that is quite lark-like.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
Not a true marigold, and even less a cowslip, it is by these names that this flower, which looks most like a buttercup, will continue to be called, in spite of the protests of scientific classifiers.
"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing"
Neltje Blanchan et al