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tlie Calandra Lark are recorded as having been killed 

 in England, one near Devonport, the other near 

 Exeter. Neither specimen was for some time recog- 

 nised as belonging to this species, and therefore in 

 each case the chance of a mistake seems possible. 

 Accordingly until the occurrence of this bird in 

 Britain has been better substantiated, the Editor 

 deems its omission from the present work the more 

 prudent course " (Yarrell, vol. i. p. 646). 



The habitat of the species is given above. Mr. 

 Saunders states that it is a common cage-bird in 

 Spain and Italy, and I saw a great many in Thessaly, 

 where bunches of these birds were hanging up in 

 the markets at Volo and Larissa. 



By some authors this species is placed in the 

 genus Melanocorypha, an unfortunate name for it, 

 since the Calandra Lark does not happen to have 

 a black crown ; moreover, the characters which are 

 said to distinguish it from Ala^ida and Calandrella 

 are too insignificant to justify generic separation. 

 The bird is to all intents and purposes a lark, if 

 not a typical one. 



SIBERIAN or WHITE - WINGED LARK. Alawda 

 sihirica (Gmelin). Length, 7 in. ; bill, 0-5 in. ; wing, 

 4*7o in. ; tarsus, 0'9 in. 



Hah. North-Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Rare 

 in Southern Russia and Turkey in Avinter. 



One captured with Snow Buntings near Brighton, Nov. 22, 

 1869, at first erroneously reported as a Snow Finch 

 Bond, ZooL, 1870, p. 1984, error corrected p. 2022; 

 Dawson Rowley, tovi. cit., p. 2066 ; specimen exhibited 



