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Kleinwort, who saw it feeding with Skylarks near Rye. The 

 bird has a white eye-stripe, white tail margins and mainly white 

 under parts. Length, 7*5 ins. Wing, 4*6 ins. Tarsus, i in. 



Calandra Lark. Mehviocorypha calaJidra (Linn.). 



The Calandra Lark, formerly reputed British, but rejected on 

 account of the evidence of the two occurrences being suspicious, 

 is now accepted by some ornithologists on the strength of a 

 male and female, said to have been killed out of a party of five, 

 at St. Leonard's in May, 19 16. This heavily billed Lark can 

 easily be recognised by the large black patch on each side of 

 the throat. Length, 7*8 ins. Wing, 5*3 ins. Tarsus, V2 ins. 



Black Lark. Melanocorypha yelto?iiensis (Forster). 



The Black Lark, which cannot possibly be confused with 

 any other species, for it is black in summer and brownish black 

 obscured by very grey tips and edgings in winter, is another 

 westward wanderer from southern Russia and Siberia. The 

 female is sandy brown, with pale buff or white edges to the 

 feathers. Though it has reached western Europe on previous 

 occasions, it was not until January and February, 1907, that a 

 little party were observed on the Kentish and Sussex coast, 

 and four were killed, both males and females being obtained. 

 According to Saunders, birds killed on the Continent appeared 

 in our markets at the same time, so that we can look upon the 

 species as an erratic westward wanderer. Length, 7 "5 ins. 

 Wing, 5"3 ins. Tarsus, I'l ins. 



Shore-Lark. Otocorys alpestris (Linn.). 



According to Saunders, the Palasarctic Shore-Larks had 

 origin in the Nearctic region and have thence spread westward. 



