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watched an immense stream of Larks, as they 

 poured in from the Irish Sea to the highest chfFs 

 at St. Bees. The birds did not, however, ahght on 

 landing, but the entire body proceeded to move 

 inland in the same direction, flying from west to 

 east. The day was dull and gloomy, with a slight 

 breeze, and the birds flew low. This flight of Sky- 

 larks occupied upwards of half an hour in passing 

 over Sandwith. 



A. Arhorea. Woodlark. 



The Woodlark is an extremely local resident, a 

 few pairs nesting sporadically near Workington and 

 Camerton (where we heard three individual males 

 warbling delightfully in June, 1885), and also at 

 St. Bees. Mr. Hodgson detected the presence of 

 the Woodlark in the Ulleswater district some years 

 since, and Mr. Reynolds has obtained snared birds 

 in winter at Bavenglass. Our only note of the 

 occurrence of the Woodlark in east Cumberland 

 refers to a female shot near Alston, in March, 1866, 

 which we presented to the Carlisle Museum. 



Genus OTOCORYS. 



O. Alpestris. Shorelark. 



The Shorelark is an accidental visitant from 

 northern Europe, and should be looked for on our 

 salt marshes in winter. A single straggler was shot 

 near St. Bees in 1862, from which locality the 

 species had been previously recorded, but without 

 particulars. (J. Robson, ZooL, 1854, p. 4167.) 



