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WHITE-WINGED LARK. 



Alauda sibirica, J. F. Gmelin. 



An example of this Eastern species, which had been captured ahve 

 near Brighton on November 22nd 1869, when associating with a 

 flock of Snow-Buntings, was recognized on the same day by the late 

 Mr. G. Dawson Rowley and subsequently exhibited at a meeting of 

 the Zoological Society. It proved to be a female, and is now in the 

 collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. 



An occasional visit from the White-winged Lark is not surprising, 

 for three specimens have already been obtained in Belgium : one in 

 October 1855 near Liege, another at Malines (or Mechlin) in 1856, 

 and a third near Namur. On Heligoland one was taken on August 

 2nd 1 88 1, and, although the occurrence of this species is not yet 

 authenticated in Northern Germany, its visits to Poland and Galizia 

 are not infrequent ; while stragglers have been recorded — always on 

 the autumn migration — from Trent in Tyrol, as well as Verona and 

 Bergamo in Italy. On the 'black-earth' plains of Russia as far 

 north as Saratov on the Volga this Lark is a common breeding 

 species, and it visits Southern Russia and portions of Turkey in 

 winter ; while eastward, it can be traced through the Kirghis steppes 

 to the Altai Mountains, and as far north as to Omsk on the Irtish. 



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