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the low temperature of the season probably checking cuta- 

 neous transpiration, and inducing a deposit of fat ; but should 

 a fall of snow cover the ground, their condition is altered for 

 the worse in a few days. It appears from the following re- 

 marks of Mr. Woolnough, of Hollesley, on the coast of 

 Suffolk, that these birds frequently migrate into this country 

 from the Continent in autumn.* " I have frequently seen 

 them come flying oflf the sea ; not in one year, but on several, 

 and for many hours on the same day, from five and ten, to 

 forty and fifty in a flock. This I once observed in Novem- 

 ber for three days in succession : our fields were then covered 

 with Larks, to the great destruction of the late sown wheat." 

 The Rev. Richard Lubbock, among other notices of the 

 birds of Norfolk with which he has favoured me, says, " I 

 can entirely corroborate the migration of these birds to our 

 coast in the autumn, as mentioned in the Linnean Trans- 

 actions. On Eaistor Point, near Yarmouth, I have more than 

 once witnessed the arrival of Larks from the sea, precisely as 

 there described." During severe weather in winter, large 

 flocks of Larks are observed in some inland counties, and 

 particularly in the southern counties, of England, flying to the 

 westward. 



The Sky Lark is universally distributed over the British 

 Islands, but in severe weather in winter, accompanied with 

 snow, a large portion leave Scotland in flocks to come south- 

 ward. In Orkney and Shetland it is only a summer visiter, 

 according to Mr. Dunn, retiring to a more southern latitude 

 on the approach of winter. It is a common bird in Den- 

 mark, Sweden, and Norway, during summer, and a few re- 

 main in winter; but the greater part migrate southwards. 

 The Sky Lark does not appear to visit the Faroe Islands, 

 Iceland, or Greenland. M. Temminck says it inhabits Si- 



* Linn, Trans, vol. xv. p. 22. 



