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distributed in England, being chiefly found in the southern 

 and south-eastern counties, becoming scarce in the midland 

 and northern counties to Cumberland and Yorkshire ; local 

 in Wales. In Scotland it has occurred, as an Autumn or 

 Winter Visitor, on Fair Isle, Shetlands, Pentland Skerries, 

 Orkneys, and at the Isle of May, Fife. In Ireland it is 

 much rarer than formerly, but bred in co. Wicklow in 1894. 

 General Distribution. The Wood-Lark breeds through- 

 out Europe from central Scandinavia to the Mediterranean 

 and Urals. It is migratory in the northern parts of its 

 range and more plentiful in the south during winter. Birds 

 from north-west Africa, Corsica and Sardinia, have been 

 separated as local forms. 



Genus GALERIDA Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 321. 

 Type : G. cristata (Linn.). 

 Galerida, more probably Galeritawith a helmet, galea. 



Galerida cristata. CRESTED LARK. 



Alauda cristata Linncem, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 166 : 

 Austria. 



Alauda cristata Linn. ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 71 ; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 253. 

 Galerita cristata (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. 1890, 



p. 626. 



Cristata = furnished with a crest. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred on several occasions, chiefly on the south coast of 

 England, and once, it is said, in Ireland. 



General Distribution. The Crested Lark is subject to 

 great variation, and is found in many forms throughout 

 the greater part of Europe, Africa to the tropics and Asia. 

 If these are admitted the typical form is confined to Europe, 

 from southern Sweden to the Pyrenees, Italy, the Balkan 

 Peninsula, and south Russia. 



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