384 ALAUDA AHBOREA. 



[§ 2016. 77iree.—B\oxwoYth, Dorset, 18 May, 1876. " E. N." 



My brother's note is : "I saw one of the parents, the hen I think, get off 

 this nest on the 16th, when there were two eggs in it. I visited it again on 

 the 18th, when there being only three I took them. The nest on the heath.] 



[§ 2017. i^o^r.— Hockering, Norfolk, 19 May, 1876. From 

 Mr. Norgate.] 



ALAUDA ARBOREA, Liim«;iis. 

 WOODLARK. 

 ^ 2018. Tz^o.— From Mr. R. Mansfield, 1844. 

 ^ 2019. One.— From Mr. J. P. Wilmot, 1846. 

 § 2020. 0//^.— From Dr. Pitman, 1846. 



[Dr. (now Sir Henry) Pitman soon after sold his collection to the late 

 Mr. H. F. Walter.] 



^2021. One.— Yorkshire. From Mr. Take, 1846. 



§ 2022. Tivo.—Eheden, 1853. "A.N." From Messrs. A. 

 and E. Newton.^ 



The nest was found while building by one brother and the eggs 

 taken by the other ; the bird seen upon it. 



^ [I have elsewhere suggested (Yarrell, Br. B. ed. 4, i. pp. 626, 627) that the 

 Woodlark may have been " a comparatively recent colonist " in the neighbourhood 

 of Thetford. It was quite unknown to the country-people of the district, and the 

 late Mr. Salmon told me he had no recollection of having ever met with it when he 

 lived there, some fifteen or twenty years before. I find from my brother Edward's 

 notes that he heard the bird singing at Elveden in the spring of 1848 and that of 

 1849, and again once, but once only, in the summer of 1850. In the following year 

 the species was observed by one or the other of us on twelve occasions between the 

 31st of March and the 13th of July, and we learnt where to look for it, since 

 it is extremely limited in its distribution ; and, in the breeding-season, as we 

 afterwards became aware, wanders hardly more than one hundred and fifty 



