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Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



inch. inches. inches. inch. 



Palestine 07 -075 4-0 -4-3 2-6 -2-9 1-0 — 



G. brachyura ... 075 — 3-8 — 235 — 10 — 



Egypt 07 -0-75 38 -4-2 2-35-27 0-95-1-0 



Abyssinia 0-68-0-8 3-9 -4-1 2-4 -2-55 09 -1-05 



N.-W. Africa 07 -0-8 3-8 -4-1 2-4 -2'9 1-0 -1-1 



G. arenicola . . 075-0-8 39 -4-0 2-8 -2-9 1-0 — 



Persia 0-75-0-82 3'95-4-3 2-5 -2-8 0-9 -0-95 



Baluchistan 0'7 -0-8 4-2 -4-3 275-2"8 0-9 -1-0 



India 0-7 -0-8 37 -4-2 2-2 -27 09 -10 



Yarkand, G. magna .... 075-0-8 4-25-4-35 2-9 — 1-09-1-1 



China 0-65-0-75 39 -4'2 2-5 -2-8 09 -10 



The Crested Lark is found in Central and Southern Europe (seldom straggling to Northern 

 Europe), Northern Africa, and eastward into India and China. In Great Britain it has only 

 occurred as an extremely rare straggler. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., writes to me that he thinks 

 " six Crested Larks have altogether been obtained ; and I can tell you in whose possession they 

 are. I pass over the one of Yarrell's supplement, communicated to him by Mr. Bond, who 

 has the original notice and picture (which I searched for in the ' Dublin Penny Journal ' at 

 Wheldon's, without finding it), as its hind toe and nail were remarkably long. The first real 

 specimen is Mr. Bond's, said to have been killed at Littlehampton, and alluded to by Yarrell 

 and Morris, who merely say ' killed in Sussex,' without mentioning any names. The Penzance 

 pair in Mr. Rodd's collection and mine are recorded, Zool. p. 1497; and a third (Zool. p. 3033) 

 was, I am informed, destroyed in the town Museum ; but perhaps my informant only meant that 

 it was badly stuffed. Another was obtained at Shoreham (Ibis, vi. p. 224) in 1863 ; and, lastly, 

 one was obtained at Budock Bottoms, near Falmouth, by Mr. Gill (Bullmore's Cornish Fauna, 

 p. 20). Mr. Gill wrote to me that he still has this specimen. The one recorded as obtained on 

 Blackheath (Zool. p. 1167) is more than doubtful." 



Referring to the specimens obtained in Cornwall, Mr. Rodd writes as follows: — "There 

 were three specimens of this continental Lark captured in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Penzance nearly at the same time ; indeed two of them were together. These two birds were 

 observed on the top of a bank adjoining the sea-shore between Penzance and Marazion; and the 

 attention of Mr. Vingoe, who shot them, was particularly drawn to them by their peculiar flute- 

 like chirp, which somewhat resembled the note of the Wood-Lark. The third example was 

 obtained in the same locality and about the same time by another person." 



It has not been recorded as occurring so far north as in Norway, but has been met with 

 in Southern Sweden, where Nilsson enumerates five instances of its occurrence, two of which 

 took place in midwinter. It has, however, been found breeding there ; and Mr. Meves took a 

 nest containing five eggs near Trelleborg, where, however, this bird is not common. Dr. C. R. 

 Sundstrom also writes that " it has on several occasions been seen in Skane, and once shot near 

 Upsala. It has been observed throughout the year; and I myself saw several in October 1861 

 and in January 1862 between Malmo and Lund, and shot two there. In June 1862 I saw one 

 near Malmo, but could not find the nest, though the bird by its anxious manner showed that 



