136 Commander 11. Lynes on a "^ 



At Smyrna, on 4th October^ Wood-Larks were plentiful 

 on rising ground near the pine-clad hills. One male was 

 singing very sweetly from a stone. 



Sicihj. — Young, not long out of the nest^ were observed 

 on 2nd June in the Cava district. 



Gihraltar. — In the cork-woods Wood-Larks were in full 

 song on 2{)th February, and were also in ])airs on the tops of 

 the scrub-elad hills above. There is an authentic record of 

 a nest with eggs in the low ground of the cork-woods in 

 INIarch, and the species is a fairly plentiful breeder in the 

 Coto Donana, where a nest of young about five days old 

 was found on 9tli May. (Irby did not record breeding in 

 Gibraltar.) 



At Malta the species was never observed, neither was it 

 met with between 22ud February and ()th August in Lemnos, 

 Mitylenc, Tiiaso, or jMarmarice. 



The stomachs of specimens examined contained seeds, 

 snails, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. 



[Specimens were obtained in Egypt, Crete, Greece and 

 Smyrna, all of the typical form. — //. F. JV.'] 



AlAUDA ARVENSIS CANTARELLA Bp. 



This race of the Sky-Lark was met with at Platea in winter, 

 in flocks ujD to 100 strong on the dry plains, and in Egyi)t 

 as a winter visitor in moderate numbers. At Port Said the 

 first bird was seen on 20th October. The numbers then 

 increased, and by the end of the mouth Sky-Larks had 

 become plentiful, and were almost abundant throughout 

 November, after which the passage subsided and the 

 numbers gradually assumed winter proportions, small in the 

 Port Said districts, but considerable near the Nile Delta 

 and Ismailia. 



Sky-Larks seemed to follow the general rule in arriving 

 at Port Said about daybreak. On 3rd. November, at this 

 hour, a Sky-Lark was found susjiended in mid-air by one 

 wing from an accumulated string of spider's web connecting 

 two clumps of reeds. The bird had managed to get a com- 

 plete turn of the web round the " wrist," and was thus 



