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Herr Schliiter, of Halle, with the following remarks: — "Alauda tartarica 

 nests usually in the Steppes of Kirgisch. Its favourite summer resi- 

 dence is especially ten miles from the Volga. The time for the eggs 

 is from the end of April to July. The nest is generally made by 

 the side of, or underneath, a small growth of stiff reed-stalks, partly 

 cut off, of Artemisia, and particularly of broad-leaved plants; also 

 behind stiff balls of must; it seldom stands quite alone, open. The 

 number of eggs three to five, generally, however, it is four." 



The bird is also figured by Buffon, pi. enl. 650, f. i.; Gould, B. of 

 E. pi. 161; Vieillot, Galerie des Oiseaux, vol. i, p. 259, pi. 160, adult 

 male'; Gmelin Nov. Comm. Petrop. xv., p. 479, pi. 23, fig. 2; Werner, 

 Atlas du Manuel, pi. lith. of the young of the year. 



