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by Gould (‘ Zool. Journ.’ vol. v. pp. 103, 104), and Yarrell 
(‘ Brit.. Birds,’ 4th ed. vol. ii. p. 16); also a hen-bird of this 
species, shot by Mr. Bond near the Red House, Battersea Fields, 
during the winter of 1830. In the same case, amongst some 
Snow Buntings from Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Sussex, is a 
cream-coloured variety of this species, received from Heysham, 
to whom it was presented by Macgillivray. 
In Case 122, which contains a white Sky Lark from Sussex, 
and a Wood Lark from Welshpool, are two other birds which 
deserve special mention, namely, the first recorded English 
specimen of the Crested Lark, Alauda cristata, figured by Yarrell, 
and referred to in the 4th edition of his ‘ British Birds,’ vol. i. 
p. 633; and a Shore Lark, Otocorys alpestris, which was caught 
near Brighton on the 15th November, 1861, and kept alive in an 
aviary for a year and eight months (cf. ‘ The Ibis,’ 1862, p. 88). 
Five very singular varieties of the Sky Lark are preserved in 
Case 112, cinnamon-coloured, silver-grey, white, variegated 
white, and black and white pied. The last-named, which has 
the head, neck, back, and whole of the under parts black, with 
wings and tail white, variegated with black, was obtained at 
Hampstead by the late Mr. Herbert Greenwood. 
White and cream-coloured Swallows and Martins are displayed 
in Case 113, the most remarkable specimen in this case being a 
Swallow with a white head from Reading. A fawn-coloured 
Mistle Thrush (Case 22), and a Fieldfare with the head and 
shoulders white, shot near Hendon (Case 115) deserve notice, as 
do also (in the last-mentioned case) a young Cuckoo with white 
wings, from Sussex, presented by the late A. EH. Knox, the 
author of ‘ Ornithological Rambles in Sussex,’ and a Nightjar of 
a dark cream-colour, obtained by the late Mr. C. Thurnall while 
partridge-shooting at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, on Sept. Ist, 
1859. Another Nightjar, nearly white, is preserved in Case 120. 
One cabinet is entirely set apart for a collection of “‘ varieties ”’ 
of small birds, which are mounted in groups in the drawers, 
instead of in cases. Conspicuous amongst these are a hybrid 
Goldfinch and Greenfinch, taken near London in 1868; a white 
Brambling from Dayy, the birdcatcher, of Camden Town, 
probably captured near Hampstead, on his favourite ground for 
Linnets; a red variety of the Chaffinch, caught by boys ‘‘ bat- 
fowling” at Hammersmith; a Scarlet Bullfinch, Pyrrhula 
