110 RARE VISITANTS. 
Fam. ALAUDID &. 
CRESTED LARK. Alauda cristata, Linneus. 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe; North Africa. 
One, Taney, Ireland, Feb. 1836: “W. R.” Dublin Penny 
Journal, 27th Feb. 1836; Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. 1. 
p. 480. 
One or more in Ireland “ since that date”: Yarrell, J. ¢. 
One, Sussex: Yarrell, 7. c. and figure. 
Two near Penzance, Sept. 1846: Rodd, Zoologist, 1846, 
p. 1497. 
One near Penzance, 24th Oct. 1850: Rodd, Zoologist, 1851, 
p- 3033. 
One near Shoreham, 20th Oct. 1863: Dawson Rowley, The 
Ibis, 1864, p. 224. 
One near Falmouth, Dec. 1865: Bullmore, Cornish Fauna, 
p. 20. 
SHORT-TOED LARK. Alauda brachydactyla, Leisler. 
Hab. Central and Southern Europe; Western Asia and 
North Africa. 
One near Shrewsbury, 25th Oct. 1841: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. 
Birds, vol, i. p. 488. 
One near Brighton, Sept. 1854: Dawson Rowley, Ibis, 1859, 
p-. 330*. 
One, Scilly, 23rd Sept. 1854: Rodd, Zoologist, 1854, p. 4477. 
One, Brighton, April 1858: Dawson Rowley, /. c. 
* This is in all probability the specimen noticed by Mr. Hussey 
as obtained near Brighton in the autumn of 1854 (Zoologist, 1855, 
p. 4558). 
