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Family ALAUDID.E. 



SKY LARK, Alauda arvensis. Page 126. 



WOOD LARK, Alauda arborea. Abundant in 

 the weald, but less numerous in other parts of the 

 county. Rarely seen on the Downs. Appears to 

 be more susceptible of cold than the sky lark. 

 During severe frost vast numbers congregate on 

 the coast, and are then easily killed. 



CRESTED LARK, Alauda cristata. Mr. Yarrell, in 

 the second edition of his * British Birds,' records 

 an instance of this lark having been killed in 

 Sussex. 



Family EMBERIZID.E. 



LAPLAND BUNTING, Plectrophanes Lapponica. 

 Of this rare visitor from the North very few 

 examples have occurred in the British Islands, 

 and three of these in the neighbourhood of Brigh- 

 ton. The first was prior to the year 1828, and is 

 recorded by Mr. Jenyns as the second specimen 

 taken in England. The second, which is in the 

 collection of Mr. W. Borrer, was captured in a 

 lark-net in October, 1846. The third was shot 

 in November, 1848, near the toll-gate at Rotting- 

 dean. He sent it to Mr. Swaysland with some 

 snow buntings, of which species he supposed 



