WHITE-WINGED LARK. 
MELANOCORYPHA LEUCOPTERA, Pallas. 
Melanocorypha leucoptera, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 518, 
no. 147, pl. xxxil. fig. 2 (1831). 
Melanocorypha sibirica, Yarr. ed. 4,1. p. 642; Dresser, iv. 
p. 373. 
Once only has the White-winged Lark been obtained 
in the British Isles, at Brighton on the 22nd November, 
1869, where it was consorting with a flock of Snow- 
Buntings. It is equally accidental in Western Europe, 
there being only three instances on record, one of these 
being, of course, on Heligoland. It is one of the 
numerous species of desert or steppe Larks inhabiting 
the plateaus of Central and Northern Asia, where it is 
a migrant. 
First discovered by Pallas on the Irtish, scarcely any 
further information has been added by subsequent 
writers to the account of the Russian pioneer of 120 
years ago. In its song and flight it resembles the 
Sky-Lark, though with a feebler note, and, like the 
Crested Lark, frequents roadsides. Its nest is formed 
of grass, and placed in some slight depression in the 
ground. 
