22 Messrs. Sheppaiîd ond Wiiitear's Catalogue 



CJenus XVIII. Al au d a. 



1. yl. «/'l'c/zi/s (Skylark). 



It appears from tlie following remarks of Mr. Woolnough of 

 Hollesley, that these birds frequently migrate into this country 

 from the Continent in autumn, and return thither in the spring. 

 Mr. W. thus writes: — " I have frequently seen larks and rooks 

 come Hying oÏÏ the sea ; not in one year only, but in many ; not 

 on one day only in the same year, but on several. I have seen 

 them coming oft' the sea for many hours in the same day ; — the 

 larks from five and ten to forty or fifty in a tlock ; the rooks, on 

 the same day, in companies from three to fifteen. This I once 

 observed in November l^or three days in succession ; the early 

 part of that month was the general time of their coming : our 

 fields were then covered with the larks, to the great destruction 

 of the late-sown wheat. They generally remained with us till 

 the first heavy fall of snow, and then disappeared. Early in the 

 February following they appeared again on the coast in innu- 

 merable flocks, but disappeared as soon as the weather became 

 fine, with a light westerly wind : from which circumstance I con- 

 cluded that they again crossed the sea. They appeared to me 

 to be the same as our common Skylarks. 



" Those larks and rooks that I have seen coming otï' the sea, did 

 not appear like birds that had flown off for pleasure ; they always 

 flew low, close to the water, and seemed fully intent on reaching 

 the shore, on which they often alighted directly on reaching it." 



2. A. arborca (^Voodlark). 



The Wood-Lark breeds in this part of the kingdom, but it is 

 a thinly-scattered species. 



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