name：

Oriental Skylark
  anonymity： Mid sky bird
  type： Stationary bird, Special subspecies of Penghu
　
  description：

The skylark and The Immortals are the County Bird and County Flower of Penghu respectively.  Penghu skylark is a special subspecies in Penghu, its layer of thick red feather makes a sharp comparison with the skylark in Taiwan.  There’s quite a number of skylark in Penghu, with a feather crown/cap on its head as a special mark.  In April and May when it comes the courtship season, it will sing at a pinpoint high up in the sky.　The sound is so sweet that skylark is also called “Mid-sky bird”.  It mainly feed on insects, breed on spacious grasslands—with two to five eggs in one nest, the incubation period merely eleven to twelve days and the fledglings will leave the nest after ten to twelve days.

Chen-heng was born in the year 1982, died at 1966, aged 75.  Chen came from He-jie village of Xi-yu.  He went to the old-style private school when he was young, studying Chinese for a decade.  During the Japanese rule, serving to make Chinese Culture available to all, he set up studies at places like Xi-yu, Zhu gao Bay, He-jie-tou etc.  Chen taught for more than ten years, then posted as a clerk under the Tithing System for 28 years, solving lots of difficulties for local people.  After the Restoration, he took the post of He-jie village head and the township representative of Xi-yu, assisting the implementation of Government decree.  Later, Chen was elected as the first village head and he devoted himself in local construction even more.  Chen was enthusiastic in public welfare, being happy in doing good throughout his life thus still praised hitherto.
　
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