620 NOTES FROM THE SOUTH. 



GALERITA CRISTATA. Crested Lark. 



One of the commonest roadside birds in Dalmatia, even 

 high up in the mountains, and still more abundant in the 

 Herzegovina. Apparently somewhat paler in plumage than 

 the Crested Lark of Austria. 



CORYS ARBOREA. Wood-Lark. 



On March 13th, after a very stormy night, two very tired 

 birds of this species remained on a little meadow in front of 

 the castle at Lacroma. Next day they had vanished. 



ALAUDA ARVENSIS. Sky-Lark. 



On March 13th a Sky-Lark appeared at the same place 

 with the Wood-Larks. It was the only one that I saw during 

 my stay in the south. 



ORIOLUS GALBULA. Golden Oriole. 



The first appeared in the pine-woods of Lacroma on March 

 16th ; on the 17th there were a good many, and they were 

 already beginning to whistle a little. 



PYRRHOCORAX ALPINUS. Alpine Chough. 



On cool days during the end of March and the beginning 

 of April I saw this bird in large flocks not far from the road 

 between Ragusa and Trebinje, and on April 25th I found 

 hundreds of them nesting together in the high cliffs along the 

 river Cermanja, between Obrovazzo and the Mar di Novigrad. 



CORVUS CORAX. Raven. 



Very common in Istria and Dalmatia, on the mainland as 

 well as on the islands, and throughout the Herzegovina one 

 of the most abundant birds. On March 31st two old Ravens 

 with their three young ones came to a carcass that I had laid 

 out for vultures not far from Trebinje. The young ones flew 



