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These species and subspecies lieing new to tlie Britisli list 

 should be added to the Hand-List as follows : — 



MELANOCORYPHA CALANDRA 



58a. Melanocorypha calandra calandra (L.) — THE 

 CALANDRA LARK. 



Alauda Calandra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. XII., I., p. 288 



(1766 — " Habitat circa Pyrenaeos.") 



Melanocorypha c. calandra, J. B. Nichols, Brit. B., X., p. 254. 



Dtstribution. — England. — Two obtained (from party of five) 

 at Filsham Farm, St. Leonard's-on-Sea (Sussex), May 16th 

 and 17th, 1916 {ut siipra). T^\'o said to have been obtained 

 in Devon {ZooL, 1863, p. 8768, 1869, p. 1599, 1876, p. 4835), 

 not considered authentic. 



Distribution. — Abroad- So\\i\\ Europe: Spain and south 

 France, Mediterranean Islands to Balkan Peninsula and south 

 Russia (as far as the Caspian Sea), Asia Minor and Armenia, 

 Palestine, also Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Occasional 

 stragglers in Heligoland and in Germany ; as this Lark is often 

 kept in cages, single occurrences require careful consideration. 

 Replaced by another race in western Persia, Transcaspia, to 

 Turkestan . 



135a. — Acrocephalus arundinaceus orientalis (Temm. 

 & &chleg.).-THE EASTERN GREAT REED- 

 WARBLER 



Salicaria txjrdina orientalis Temminek & Schlegel, Siebold's, 



Fauna Japon., Aves p. 50, pi. XXB. (1847 — Japan, Borneo, Celebes 



Sumatra). 



Acrocephalus arvndinacevs orientcdis, J. B. Nichols, Brit. B., 



X., p. 254. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Male at west St. Leonards- 

 on-Sea (Sussex), August 24th, 1916 [ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds in south-east Siberia, west 

 as far as the Argun River, in the oases of Central Asian desert, 

 north and middle China to the Yang-tse-kiang and Fokien. 

 Migrant, passing thiough China and wintering as far south as 

 the Philippine and Sunda Islands and even Celebes and the 

 Moluccas, west to the Mala3' Peninsula and Andamans. 



