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The song of this bird varied rather markedly in the 

 different districts: those I listened to at Scutari seemed to 

 say " Tit-tit-pretty-pretty-come- along-to-tea-a-ee " ; the 

 Kara Dagh birds were not so thoughtful for the comfort of 

 their better halves and sang a shorter song. 



2Q. ^Emberiza hortulana L. 



Fairly common on stony, bushy hill-sides above Scutari, 

 also in similar localities in the Kara Dagh. 



27. *Alauda arborea L. 



One or two pairs of Wood-Larks were seen in the Kara 

 Dagh at about 4900 feet in broken country with patches of 

 oak-scrub. 



28. ^Melanocorypha bimaculata Menetr. (?). 



In the Kara Dagh_, Calandra Larks were fairly common. 

 I have identified them with the eastern species, M. bimacu- 

 lata, from the fact that the black corselet in such specimens 

 as I was able to observe appeared to be continuous across 

 the chest. The locality is rather to the westward of the 

 breeding-range indicated by Dresser (1910, p. 324) for the 

 species {'' Transcaspia, in Asia through Persia and Afghani- 

 stan ....'' etc.), and in the absence of specimens it is as 

 well not to be too confident of identification. 



Little seems to be l^nown regarding the nesting-habits of 

 the Eastern Calandra Lark. Dresser (1910) says the only 

 eggs he has seen are those obtained by Zarudny at Kirchjar, 

 Transcaspia. 



These Larks I found in the Kara Dagh, frequenting the 

 open parts up to at least 6000 feet. Calandra Larks were 

 also seen in some other districts in the plains or low hills, 

 but I am unable to say whether they were M. calandra or 

 M. himaculata. 



I found one of their nests in the Kara Dagh on May 24, 

 built under the shelter of a tuft of green herbage on a dry 

 gravelly slope, not far from the Keklik's (Partridge's) nest 

 mentioned below. It was rather deep, constructed of dry 

 grass etc., and when first found was empty. Four days 



