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LULLULA ARBOREA. 

 Both i-aces of the Wood-Lark occur in Palestine in winter 

 and early spring, and are coninioidy met with in the Jndasan 

 highlamls in small flocks. All those I have collected belong 

 to pallida, whereas there is an undoubted L. I. arhorea in (he 

 Tring Collection, collected by Aharoni at liehoboth in the 

 coastal plain on IG. xi. It is still uncertain which is the 

 breeding race. 



ALAUDA ARVENSIS. 



Alauda arvensis cinerascens. 



Ahmda cinerea Ehmcke, J. £. O. 1903, p. 149 : Siberia, 

 preoccupied, 



Alauda cinerascens W[\n\c\Q, J.f. 0. 1904, p. 313: amended 

 name for cinerea. 



Alauda cypriaca Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, p. 300 : 

 Cyprus. 



Alauda insularis Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, 

 p. 300 : Cyprus. 



Boih cypriaca and insularis were described from winter 

 birds, and a number of such ))irds which I hav(i examined 

 undoubtedly belong to this race and not to cantarella. I 

 believe the Sky-Lark does not breed in Cyprus, though it is 

 a common winter visitor to that island. 



This grey race of the Sky-L;irk is, in a large series, dis- 

 tinctly paler above and whiter below than cantarella. 



All winter visitors to Greece which I have examined 

 belong to this race; also most winter birds to Syria, 

 Palestine, and Egypt. Li 1920 they had all left I^alestine 

 for the north between 5. iii. and 10. iii., and they had all gone 

 from Egypt by 26. iii. In western Egypt they were very 

 common on the coast at Solium and Mersa Matruh in 

 January, but in the Fayoum I saw no Sky-Ijarks in January 

 1920. 



Alauda arvensis schach. 



Alauda schach Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, p. 299 : 

 East Persia. 



