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of the British Ornithologists' Club, held on February 20, 

 1907. He wrote: "The female was brought to me in 

 the flesh on February 2, 1907, by Mr. Bristow, who had 

 just received it by post from Lydd, Kent, where it had 

 been shot on January 81. It was accompanied by a 

 male and two females, and the man who shot it aimed 

 at the male bird as being a stranger to him, but the 

 shot killed the female. Since these two were obtained 

 I hear from my brother that another male was shot at 

 Lydd, Kent, on February 18, and another at Eye, 

 Sussex, on February 16, and that others have been 

 seen " {Bulletin of the B.O.C., xix., p. 57, 1907). 



Genus OTOCORYS, Bonaparte. 



SHOEE-LAEK. 



Otocorijs alpestris (Linnaeus). S.N., i., p. 289 

 (1766). 



The Shore-Lark appears to be a frequent visitor to the 

 coast of Kent, and many examples have been secured at 

 various times during the autumn and winter. 



In Yarrell's British Birds he states that " before 

 November, 1838, I had heard of a pair that were obtained 

 together on a down in Kent, the male only of w4iich was 

 preserved. 



Occurrence of the Shore-Lark at Woolwich. — "A week 

 or two ago I went into a small bird-stuffer's shop here, 

 and whilst conversing with the owner he informed me 

 that a workman in the dockyard at Sheerness had, during 

 the cold weather last February (1861), shot five specimens 

 of what he called the American Lark. Upon his describ- 



