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any other example of this species has been obtained in this 
country. 
Large flocks of this Short-toed Lark are observed at 
Erzeroom in spring, and it is found also in Greece; ac- 
cording to M. Temminck, this bird is very abundant in 
Sicily, is found generally along the shores of the Mediter- 
ranean, in Spain, and in the southern and central parts of 
France. Pollidore Roux enumerates it as a bird of Pro- 
vence ; and M. Brehm includes it in his Birds of Germany, 
but this appears to be the usual boundary of its range 
northwards. It feeds on insects and seeds; makes its nest 
on the ground, and lays four or five eggs of dull yellow, 
or pale coffee colour, without any spots. 
The male, Mr. Gould observes, “has the top of the 
head and all the upper parts of a yellowish, or sandy 
brown, with the centre of each feather darker; the quills 
and tail of a dusky brown, the two outer feathers of the 
latter having their external edges yellowish white; a 
whitish-yellow streak over each eye; throat and belly 
white; the chest and flanks bemg tinged with yellowish 
brown ; bill and feet light brown. ‘The sexes are not dis- 
tinguishable by the colouring of their plumage; the tints 
of the female are, however, somewhat duller than those of 
the male. The young during the first autumn have the 
outer edges of each feather margined with buff. 
The whole length of the Shrewsbury specimen was five 
inches and three-quarters; the tarsal bone three-quarters 
of an inch; the hind toe half an inch, the claw of it only 
one quarter of an inch; the wing, from the carpal joint 
to the end of the longest quill-feather three inches and a 
half; the second quill-feather the longest in the wing, the 
first and third feathers a little shorter; the tertials extend 
backwards as far as the end of the closed wing. 
