466 Captain II. Lynes — Bird-notes 



recorded in tlie finding of a nest with eight eggs on INIay 7th. 

 Five of these were blotched and about four days set, wliile 

 three were spotted and about six days set, so that they had 

 obviously been laid by different birds. The sitting female, 

 which was shot as she left the nest, had no more fertile eggs 

 in her ovary. Unfortunately, lack of time prevented further 

 investigation of this interesting case. 



Sierra Nevada. — Seen up to 4500 ft., but no higher; 

 apparently all G. theckhe, but no specimens were obtained. 



[I have made a careful examination of the series of speci- 

 mens of G. t. thecklce collected, and find that the differences 

 in colouring (which are slight) can only be attributed to 

 individual variation. One bird, obtained on June 9th, 

 1910, near Granadilla, Estremadura, is particularly brown, 

 especially when compared witli three greyish-black birds 

 from the Coto Donana ; two others from Estremadura are 

 brownish, but others are much like the Coto Donana birds; 

 from near Jerez there are both greyish-bhick and brownish 

 specimens, and the same may be said of those from near 

 Chipepe. Tlie specimen mentioned above as belonging to 

 the '' cristata" group from Hervas, Estremadura, is an 

 exami)le of (laleridn cristafa paUida. — H. F. JJ.j 



LuLLULA AKBOKEA. Woodlark. 



Sa7i Cristobal. — The Woodlark impressed us with its 

 mixed ideas as regards " habitat '^ ; a fair number bred in 

 Avooded parts of the Goto Donana at sea-level (young hatched 

 May 4th), many in the woods of the foothills and lower 

 zone of the mountain, Avhile others frequented some bare 

 esparto-grass patches at 4000 ft., wliere they were courting 

 at the end of March, and evidenth^ had eggs or young in the 

 nest on April 23rd. 



The last locality had probal)ly been denuded of its scrub 

 and trees at no very remote date, and the apparent incon- 

 sistency of these individuals in nesting in so exposed a 

 place may be but an instance of hereditary attachment to 

 old nesting-sites of former scrub- and tree-clad days, such as 

 are mentioned in " Yarrell " in the case of the Stone-Curlew. 



