"The Rakish Highlander", also known as "The Mountain Lark" is an Irish and Scottish reel in E Minor. The parts are played AB. The identification of a 'Scottish' provenance seems to have been assumed with the title in William Bradbury Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883). Francis O'Neill's printing of the same melody under the title "The Mountain Lark" came twenty years later in Music of Ireland (1903), but it was sourced to Patrolman James Kennedy, who had the tune from his father in County Leitrim. The reel was in the repertoire of Long Island Irish fiddler and composer Larry Redican, who learned it either from Ryan's Mammoth Collection or it's successor Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes and who played it under the title "Rakish Highlander". Both Ryan's and O'Neill's titles for the tune are unique to their collections. It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940) and Ryan’s Mammoth Collection (1883).