30 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Others, including a supposed example co. Dublin, 1836, not 

 authenticated (c/. Saunders, and Ussher, List of Irish Birds, p. 22). 

 A male from Penzance (Cornwall) Sept., 1846, in Mr. J. H. Gurney's 

 collection, is of this form, but the other specimens require careful 

 comparison. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Europe from south Sweden to Pyrenees, 

 Italy, Balkans, and south-west Russia. Bepresented by between 

 twenty and thirty more or less closely-allied forms in Mediter- 

 ranean countries, north Africa to Sudan (Senegambia, Upper 

 Nigeria, Somaliland) and many parts of Asia. 



LULLULA ARBOREA* 



6i. Lullula arborea arborea (L.)— THE WOOD-LARK. 



Alauda arborea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 16G (1758 — '' Habitat 

 in Europa." Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 

 Alauda arborea Linnaeus, Yarrell, i, p. 625 ; Saunders, p. 251. 



Distribution. — England and Wales. — Resident. Locally distri- 

 buted, most frequent southern counties, lower Severn and Thames 

 valleys, from Bucks, to west Norfolk and Suffolk, in southern 

 Midlands and south Wales ; northwards very scarce, but breeds 

 rarely j^arts of Yorks., and probably parts of north Wales ; breeding 

 has been recorded from Lanes, and Cumberland, and vagrants 

 from Northumberland. Has undoubtedly decreased, and is not 

 now found in places where formerly kno^^^l. Scotland. — Apparently 

 no authentic record except from Fair Isle, where small numbers 

 recorded in late autumn and winter 1906, 1907, 1909, and 1910, 

 and once Isle of May (Forth) Oct. 6, 1910. Ireland. — Formerly 

 in several counties, now extremely rare and apparently breeding 

 only in Wicklow. 



Migrations. — British Isles. — Except for Fair Isle records no 

 evidence of migration, except those of quite a local character, but 

 m severe weather small flocks and single birds are noticed on coast 

 in various parts. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — ^Middle Scandinavia to south Europe and 

 Ural. Local forms have been separated from Corsica and Sardinia, 

 north-west Africa, south-east Europe, Persia, and Transcaspia, 

 but, though it is certain that southern and eastern birds are paler, 

 their distribution and relations to one another are not yet clearly 

 defined. 



* It is impossible to suppress the generic name Lullula. If Galerida is 

 separated generieally, then Lullula must be too. Otherwise nearly all Larks 

 must be placed in the same genus. — E.H 



