4G4 Captain H. Lyiies — Bird-notes 



April, on the barer and more stony slopes between 2500 and 

 3500 ft., a somewhat narrow zone. Unlike the Cirl, the 

 Rock-Bunting: was never seen in the "foothills."" 



Sierra Nevada. — Plentiful and evidently breeding in the 

 middle zone, as well as on the very steep stony slopes near 

 the embouchure of the ]\Ionachil. 



Speaking in general terms, this species might be described 

 as a bird of the middle and more stony slopes of these 

 Sierras, where the scrub is comparatively short and scanty, 

 the latter considerations being of greater importance than 

 the altitude ; while the Cirl Bunting inhabits the richer 

 scrub and bush-country ("monte") of the foothills, but 

 also extends to considerable altitudes in the sierras, where 

 the environment is suitable. 



"^ Cal.axdrella brachyuactvla brachydactyla (Leisl.). 

 Short-toed Lark. 



On April 28th a party of ten birds was seen on the slopes 

 near the base of the lower zone of the Sieri-a Nevada, but 

 the Short-toed Lark is essentially a species of the lowlands. 



These individuals may have been late arrivals from the 

 south, but it is in keeping with the impression that we 

 received of this zone, viz., that so far as bird-life and environ- 

 ment were concerned, the "Sierra" did not really begin 

 until the "middle zone" was reached. 



[I may here refer to a specimen of Calandrella minor 

 apetzii { = bcrtica, see Yog. pal F. (i. p. xxv. footnote 2)) 

 in juvenile plumage, procured on May 15th, 1910, in the 

 Goto Donana. In comparing this with a specimen of CaJaii- 

 drella brachydactyla brachydactyla in similar plumage, also 

 collected by Lynes at Algeciras, Spain, on July 15th, 1906, 

 I note the following differences : — The C. m. npetzii is dark 

 brown on the upper parts, not yellowish -brown as in the 

 C. b. brachydactyla, and the feathers have white, not yellowish, 

 tips, and these tips form a more even fringe, and not a 

 series of spots as in the juvenile C. b. brachydactyla. The 

 whole of the under parts are heavily spotted with sooty- 

 brown, whereas in the C b. brachydactyla only the breast is 



