xxvi NATURAL HISTORY. 



3,— ALAUDA CORNUTA {Shore Lark). 



ALAUDA CORNUTA.— RjcA : Faun. Bor. Amer.—vo\. ii., p. 245. 

 ALAUDA ALPESTRIS.—i=brs< : Phil. Trans.— Ixil, p. 398. Lat : Ind. Orn.— vol. ii., p. 498. 

 Cuv : Reg. Anim. — vol. p. 400. Temm. — vol. i., p. 279. 

 Rich: App. to Parry's Id Voyage — p. 343. 

 SHORE LARK.— Penn : Arct. Zool.— vol. ii., p. 392. 



One shot by us, near Felix Harbour, agreed well with the descriptions of authors. 

 Two others were all that were seen by us ; it is therefore but rarely met with above 

 the 70° of latitude. 



4.— SYLVIA CENANTHE (Wheatear). 



SYLVIA CENANTHE.— remm.— vol. i., p. 135. Lath: Ind. Or?i.— vol. ii., p. 529. 

 Saline, in Trans. Linn. Soc. — vol. xii., p. 531. 

 MOTACILLA CENANTHE.— Cai- ; Mg. Anim.—io\. i., p. 382. 



Tab: Fami. Granl. — p. 122. 

 WHEATEAR.— i<!</i .• S^n.— vol. iv., p. 465. Arct. ZooL— vol. ii., p. 420. 



One of these little birds was observed flying round the ship in Felix Harbour on 

 the 2d of May, 1830, and was found dead alongside, the next morning: having 

 arrived before the ground was sufficiently uncovered to enable it to procure its 

 food, it had perished fiom want. It is the only instance of this bird having 

 been met with in Arctic America, in the course of our several Expeditions to those 

 regions. 



I do not find it mentioned by Dr. Richardson, in the " Fauna Boreah Americana." 

 Fabricius found it in Greenland ; and several were seen by us, on our first voyage, ofi 

 Cape Farewell, in October, 1818. 



