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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



BRITISH (MAINLAND) STOATS. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE SHORT-TOED 

 LARK AND THE LAPLAND BUNTING IN 

 THE OUTER HEBRIDES. 



By WM. EAGLE CLARKE. 



DURING a recent visit, along with Mr. T. G. Laidlaw, to the 

 Flannan Isles a remote group of uninhabited islets lying in 

 the open Atlantic, twenty miles west of the Island of Lewis, 

 and forty miles north-east of St. Kilda among the birds 

 which came under our notice were a Short-toed Lark (Calan- 

 drella brachydactylci) and a number of Lapland Buntings 

 ( Calcarius lappon tens) . 



The Short-toed Lark was captured on the morning of 

 the 2Oth of September and proved to be a female. 



That this southern European species should have occurred 

 in such an out-of-the-way place is inexplicable, but is 

 interesting since the Flannans now form the most northerly 

 record of the bird's appearance in Europe or elsewhere, and 



