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firmly held a prisouer. It would certainly have succumbed 

 to exhaustion had it not been rescued. 



A Sky-Lark, no specimen of which was obtained, was 

 found wintering plentifully in Sardinia and Sicily, also at 

 Crete, where all seemed to depart by the end of February. 

 At Malta also a Sky -Lark is a winter visitor in moderate 

 numbers. Some were seen as late as the 30th March, but 

 these individuals may have been migrants which had spent 

 tlie winter further south. 



[Specimens from Port Said were obtained from the 20tli 

 October to 15th December, and are all of this form, as 

 is one from Greece in December. — H. F. IF.'] 



Anthus campestris (L.). 



Egypt. — The Tawny Pipit was not observed until IGth 

 September, but may very likely have been overlooked 

 earlier. There were two very pale-coloured birds, one of 

 Avhich was obtained. The species was last seen on 26tli 

 October, never more than a few at a time. 



Cre/^.-'— Apparently a migrant only. First seen 1st April, 

 then constantly in small parties not exceeding six. Still 

 on passage on 28th April, up to which date no indications 

 of breeding were observed. 



Athens. — 13th to 23rd April ; plentiful on passage. Some, 

 however, were paired, and there were indications by nuptial 

 flights that these would breed there. 



Lemnus. — Plentiful at the end of August and beginning of 

 September, the majoritv apparently on migration, but a few 

 of a generally lighter colour may have been in juvenile 

 plumage and bred there. 



Sicily.— ^ot seen 20th May-8th June. 



Sardinia. — On migration in ])arties, 3rd-5th May. 



[Three young birds obtained in Egypt (September 16th 

 and 25th, and October 21st) are partly in juvenile and 

 partly in first Avinter plumage, but there is no appearance of 

 growing feathers upon them, and the moult may have been 

 arrested at the time of migration. — H. F, W.] 



