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Average of 100 eggs (27 by Rey and 73 by tlie writer) 22.04 X 16.14 Measure- 

 mm., Max. 24.1X16 and 21.5X17.5 mm., Min. 19.5X16.1 and 21.2X14.9 ™'"^'- 

 mm. These measurements are sometimes exceeded: Max. 24.8 X 1 5.9 mm. 

 (Hantzsch), Min. 19.2 X 15.2 (Hantzsch) and 22.9 X 14.4 mm. (Nordling). 

 H. J. Pearson has a dwarf egg from Iceland, 13.7 X 11 mm. Average 

 weight of 27 eggs, 168 mg. (Rey); of 32 eggs, 173 mg. (Bau). Full eggs 

 average 4 g. (Hantzsch). 



[The White throated Bunting, Zonotricha albicollis Bp., has occurred three 

 times in Great Britain ; all probably escaped birds.] 



ALAUDIDAE. 



60. Calandra Lark, Melanocorypha calaiidra (L.). 



Plate 16, fig. 23—25 (Greece), 26, 27 (S. Russia). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXVI, fig. 5, a — d. Baedeker, 

 Tab. 66, fig. 6. Taczanowski, Tab. LXIII, fig. 1. Seebohm, Col. Fig., 

 pi. 58. Reiser, Om. Bale. Ill, Taf. Ill, fig. 17, 18 (var.). 



ForeignNames: France : Calandre. Germany : KalanderlercJie. Greece : 

 Kalandra, Gialiandra. Italy: Calandra. Portugal: Cocliicho. Russia: 

 Stepnoi Javronok. Spain: Albndra, Calandria. 



Melanocovyplia calandra (L.). Dresser, Birds of Europe, IV, p. 365; 

 id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 382. M. calandra calandra (L.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. 

 Fauna, p. 208. 



Breeding Range: Portugal and the countries bordering on the 

 Mediterranean and Black Seas, but not known to breed in Egypt. 



In Portugal this species, although very local, is found in Trazos Con- 

 Montes, as well as in the south. In Spain it is an abundant and con- 

 spicuous resident in the great plains of the south and east, haunting both 

 corn and grass lands as well as arid plains. It has only been noticed in 

 southern France, and was not observed by Wharton or Whitehead in 

 Corsica, but is extremely common in Sardinia. In Italy it is a common 

 resident in the central and southern provinces, and a few pairs appear to 

 breed in Venetia, while it is also found commonly in Sicily. In the Balkan 

 peninsula it is common on suitable ground, in Dalmatia (near Zara), in 

 Montenegro (only near Podgorica), in Bulgaria (common on the plains and in 

 the Dobrudsha), in Turkey (especially numerous near Saloniki), and in Greece 

 (Thessaly, Acarnania, Attica, and the Cyclades). It is plentiful on the 

 steppes of S. Russia and the Crimea, but local on the Kirghis Steppes, 



tinental 

 Europe. 



