ADDITIONS SINCE 1899. 255 



2. Between mid-September and mid-November the main 

 autumnal movement takes place, and vast numbers of foreign 

 rooks arrive on our south-east coasts fi^m central Europe 

 and winter in our eastern counties. 



3. Between mid-October and mid-November immigrants 

 arrive on our northern shores, and spend the winter with us. 



4. In severe winters some emigrate from the northern 

 counties of Britain to the western isles. 



5. From late February to early April numbers arrive 

 on the south-east coast from the continent, moving in a 

 westerly and north-westerly direction, and are probably 

 our own birds returning from winter quarters abroad. 



6. Early in February and until mid-April the most im- 

 portant spring movement takes place in the return of the 

 central European birds for their summer homes from our 

 south-east coast. 



7. In March and April the Scandinavian birds return to 

 their summer quarters, passing through the Orkneys and 

 Shetlands. The Irish movements are chiefly irregular and 

 unimportant, and Ireland is not resorted to by the continental 

 visitors for winter quarters. 



WOOD-LARK Alauda arhorea L. S. page 251. 



SciLLY. — A rare occasional visitor — six specimens have 

 been obtained, the last on St. Mary's, 28th December, 1904 

 (J. Clark and F. R. Rodd, Zool., 1906, p. 297). 



Fair Isle (Shetlands). — A few appeared during the early 

 days of November and remained until the middle of December, 

 1906 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 1907, p. 71). This is a very 

 remarkable record, since the Wood-Lark had not previously 

 been recorded, with authenticity, as occurring anywhere in 

 Scotland, and as far as its distribution in Europe is kno\An 

 it appears to breed but very little, if at all, north of Fair Isle 

 in any quarter, so that its occurrence there must be regarded 

 as abnormal. 



SHORT-TOED LARK Alauda hrachydactyla Leisl. 

 S. page 255. 



Hants. — One, said to have been caught near Portsmouth, 

 was exhibited at the Crystal Palace Bird Show in 1890 

 (Kelsall and Munn, B. of Hants, p. 97). 



Outer Hebrides. — Flannan Isle. — A female was cap- 

 tured on 20th September, 1904 (W. E. Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 

 1904, p. 206). The Short-toed Lark is only a straggler to 

 northern, or even central, Europe, and has only been recorded 



