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In connection with Calandrella another correction must 

 be made. Hartert, in the Vogel der Palaarktischen Fauna, 

 heft. II., p. 217, 1904, called a Canary Island Lark Calandrella 

 minor rufescens (Vieill.) ex Tabl. Enc. et Meth. , i., p. 322, 1820 : 

 Teneriffe. In that place a reference is given to an earher 

 description in the Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. 28, 

 p. 516, but the description is not there. It appears however 

 on the page cited in the succeeding volume (No. 29), wliich 

 was published in 1819. Consequently, the earliest reference is 

 Alauda rufescens Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed.. 

 Vol. XXIX., p. 516, 1819 : Teneriffe ; but this is the point to 

 be emphasised, viz., that this is the earhest name for the 

 species as Calandritis ininor was not named by Cabanis until 

 over thirty years afterward. Moreover, we find that in the 

 Compl. de Buff., Vol. VIII., p. 144, Lesson used Alauda tigrina. 

 Gal. de Paris for Alauda rufescens Vieill., Encycl., t.l, p. 322. 

 In his Appendix B to Vol. VII. Birds of Austraha, giving 

 Dates of Ornithological Works, an article reprinted and revised 

 in this periodical, Mathews wrote that the exact dates of this 

 work were not known to him. They are as follows : — 



Compl. de Buffon, Vol. VII. Ackn'd B.F. Nov. 26, 1836. 



VIII. June 3, 1837. 



' Suppl. Vol. IX. - Dec. 9, 1837. 



2nd edn. Livr. 1 & 2 April 7, 1838. 



Last livr June 1, 1839. 



Descr. Mamm. et Ois. April 24,1847. 



Accepting Hartert's association, the species name wiU be 

 Calendrella rufescens (Vieillot 1819, Alauda), and the subspecies 

 will read : G. rufescens rufescens, volatzeki, baetica, minor, 

 heinei, letioophoea , seebohmi, persica, cheleensis, kukunoorensis, 

 etc., etc. 



(Enanihe deserti. 



The Desert Wheatear, a rare visitor, has been separated 

 into two forms, the western and eastern ones, the former being 

 called (E. d. deserti (Temm. and Laug. 1825) from Egypt, the 

 latter, (E. d. alhifrons (Brandt 1844) from W. Siberia. The 



