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The Sky Lark is found all over the Palaearctic region, from the British 

 Isles eastward to Siberia and Northern China. 



152. Alaiida cantarella. Bp. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 245. Southern 

 Sky Lark. 



This species (or form) congregates by thousands in the southern 

 deserts, where there are none of the ordinary Sky Lark, during the 

 winter hanging about the Bedawin camps and herds. We shot scores of 

 them for food, and never detected a specimen of the other species. We 

 did not discover them breeding. 



This bird, the Alauda intermedia of Swinhoe, extends south of the 

 line of A. arveiisis, through North Africa (rarely in the South of 

 Europe), Egypt, Southern Palestine, Southern Persia, India, and 

 China. 



153. Alauda arborea. Linn. Syst. Nat. i., p. 28 7. Wood Lark. 



The Wood Lark remains all the year in the country, wintering in the 

 hills of Benjamin and elsewhere in small flocks, and dispersing into 

 the neighbourhood of the olive-yards and woods to nest in spring. 



The Wood Lark is a summer visitor to Central and Southern Europe, 

 and winters in the Barbary States. It is resident, but in very small 

 numbers, in Turkey and Asia Minor, but does not reach further into 

 Asia. Thus Palestine is its South-eastern limit. 



154. Animomanes deserti. Licht. Verz. Doubl, p. 28. Desert 

 Lark. 



The Desert Lark has been found in some plenty on the highlands 

 on both sides of the Dead Sea and in the salt plains of the Ghor. It 

 lives in small bands in winter, and pairs in spring, when it becomes more 

 scattered. Palestine specimens are paler and less rufous than those from 

 the Sahara. 



The Desert Lark is confined to the south of the Atlas in Barbary, 

 and thence spreads over the sands of Egypt and Nubia, and as far as 

 Abyssinia. Eastward it inhabits the deserts as far as Scinde. 



