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Helsingfors late in March or early in April. In Denmark Kjaerbolling records it as abundant, 

 arriving the earliest of the spring migrants, and leaving in November ; a note by our friend 

 Mr. Benzon is also given below. 



Mr. H. M. Labouchere writes as follows: — "Although not so common as in England, this 

 bird is found in all the different parts of Holland, in the fields, moors, and also in the dunes. 

 In autumn large flocks of these birds visit us at the same time as the Chaffinches and other 

 migratory birds, when large numbers of them are netted. I have seen as many as seven hundred 

 caught in one day. It is chiefly on the dunes or sand hills that this kind of sport, if it 

 deserves that name, is indulged in." 



Godron states that it is very common in the fields of Lorraine, and partly sedentary ; and 

 Kramer gives it as resident from March to September, living in the fields, but sometimes met 

 with on the plateaux of Vosges. Degland and Gerbe say that it is common throughout France, 

 leaving in the month of October in large numbers, though a considerable number remain ; in the 

 winter quantities are found upon the coast. In Germany they are chiefly migratory, but in mild 

 winters a considerable number will stay. Seidensacher states, " It arrives in Styria late in 

 February or early in March, and is common in all fields in the valleys to the end of October, or 

 even later. I have seen stragglers in December. I cannot say if it occasionally winters with us. 

 At Neustadt, in Krain, this was certainly the case in the winter of 1859-60." 



Mr. Howard Saunders says that in Spain it is very abundant in winter in large flocks, and he 

 found it breeding in Aragon. Major Irby tells us that in Andalucia it is chiefly seen as a winter 

 migrant in great numbers, but some are resident, and breed there. Mr. Vernon Harcourt 

 records it as a straggler to Madeira. 



Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake found it plentiful in Tangier and Eastern Morocco ; and Mr. 

 Salvin observes : — " The Sky-Lark is very common about Tunis in February ; but it occurs rarely 

 in the salt-lake country, the head quarters of A. calandra, A. cristata, and A. hrackydactyla." 

 Canon Tristram writes to us as follows : — " I have found it breeding on the steppes of the 

 Eastern Sahara — that is, on the Hauts Plateaux south of the Atlas. It occurs also in the 

 Sahara in flocks in winter." Dr. Taczanowski has published the following account of the 

 species as observed by him in Algeria : — " Still more numerous than the Calandra, and, like it, 

 keeping in flocks and in the same localities. Only once, in December, I saw a male, which rose 

 and began singing ; otherwise they remained quiet. Towards the end of January they became 

 scarcer, and at the end of February they were only to be met with here and there." In Malta, 

 Mr. Wright says, it is " abundant in flocks in October, when great numbers are taken in nets or 

 shot. A few remain the winter till the beginning of February. It repasses in March and 

 April." Count Salvadori states that large quantities come down into Sardinia, some remaining 

 to breed: and in Italy it abounds during winter, according to Dr. Giglioli; and likewise in 

 Corfu and Epirus, as observed by Lord Lilford. Mr. W. H. Hudleston found it " breeding in 

 the Dobrudscha in company with A. cristata and A. brachydactyla." Von der Miihle does not 

 appear to have noticed it breeding in Greece, as he only remarks that " large quantities are 

 found all over the meadows and fields of the Morea from November to April." In Turkey 

 Messrs. Elwes and Buckley found it common on the plains ; and for the following note we are 

 indebted to Mr. T. Bobson, of Ortakeuy : — " This species is numerous in Turkey in Asia and 



