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Amongst those species which I am unable to make out satisfactorily I may name the following : — 

 Alduda longipennis, Eversmann, Cab. Journ. 1853, p. 283, which is stated to be considerably smaller than 

 the Short-toed Lark, but to have an equally long wing, reaching nearly to the end of the tail ; the bill 

 is small, and the legs very slender, the mark over the eye being clearly denned. Unfortunately no 

 measurements are given ; so that it is almost impossible to decide to what species it must be referred. 

 I think it not improbable that C. leucophcea may be found to be identical with this bird. Mr. E. von 

 Homeyer, who has placed in my hands the proof of his paper on the Short-toed Larks which will 

 appear in the next number of ' Cab. Journal fur Ornithologie/ considers, I find, that the bird to which 

 I have above referred under the name of C. leucophcea is the true Calandrella pispoletta (Pall.), and 

 describes the species which I have figured in my last number as C. pispoletta under the name of 

 Calandritis heinei, as a new species. In this, after a most careful examination of what Pallas writes, I 

 cannot agree with him, but still hold to the opinion that the Volga bird is Pallas's C. pispoletta. 

 Alauda testacea, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 526. sp. 153, from Southern Russia, is by some naturalists 

 included as a synonym of C. brachydactyla ; but I cannot consider that Pallas's description refers to a 

 Short-toed Lark, and think it more likely to be a Pipit, perhaps Anthus cervinus. 



In order to show the relative measurements 

 localities, I give the following Table : — 



of the various species of Short-toed Larks from various 









Culmen. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsus. 



Middle toe 

 with claw. 









inch. 



inches. 



inches. 



inch. 



inch. 



Cal. 



brachydactyla . 



France. 



0-45-0-5 



3-4 -3-65 



2-2 -2-4 



0-8 -0-85 



0-5 -0-52 





!> • • 



Spain. 



0-45-0-5 



3-3 -37 



2-35-2-5 



0-75-0-8 



0-55-0-6 





>) • 



Portugal. 



0-48-0-55 



3-4 -3-75 



2-35-2-55 



0-7 -0-75 



0-55-0-6 





>> 



Italy. 



0-45-0-48 



3-5 -3-6 



2-25-2-5 



0-75-0-8 



0-6 — 





>> • 



Turkey. 



0-4 -0-5 



3-5 -3-7 



2-3 -2-5 



0-7 — 



05 -0-6 





)> » 



Asia Minor. 



0-42-0-5 



3-6 -3-75 



2-4 -2-6 



0-7 -0-8 







)) 



Egypt. 



0-5 -0-55 



3-4 -3-8 



2-2 -2-6 



0-75-0-85 



0-55-0-65 





» • 



N.W. Africa. 



0-48 — 



3-6 -3-65 



2-4 -2-5 



0-75 — 



0-52-0-55 





!> • 



Persia. 



0-48-0-55 



3-4 -3-7 



2-3 -2-6 



0-7 -0-85 



05 -0-65 





iy 



Turkestan. 



0-5 — 



3-75 — 



2-4 — 



0-85 — 



0-6 — 





3} 



India. 



0-45-0-52 



3-4 -37 



2-15-2-4 



0-7 -0-8 



055-0-6 



Cal. 



pispoletta . 



China. 



0-45-0-5 



3-4 -36 



2-45-2-7 



0-75-0-8 



05 -0-55 





>> 



Volga. 



0-45-0-48 



3-8 — 



2-5 — 



0-8 -0-82 



0-6 — 





i> 



Persia. 



0-5 -0-6 



3-6 -3-8 



2-4 -2-6 



0-85 — 



0-55-0-6 



Cal. 



leucophcea 6 . . 



Turkestan (Severtzoff). 



0-5 — 



3-8 — 



2-55 — 



0-75 — 



0-55 — 



Cal. 



bcetica .... 



Spain. 



0-4 -0-42 



30 -3-4 



1-95-2-1 



0-78-0-8 



0-6 -0-65 



Cal. 



minor .... 



Algeria. 



0-38-0-45 



3-45-3-6 



2-1 -2-3 



0-7 -0-8 



0-45-0-5 





,, .... 



Beersheba. 



0-45 — 



3-55 — 



2-3 -2-35 



0-7 — 



0-5 -0-6 



The Short-toed Lark inhabits Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and India, but does not appear 

 to occur in Siberia. 



It is included in the British list as a straggler. Yarrell (vol. i. p. 488) records an " example 

 of the Short-toed Lark having been caught in a net," near the town of Shrewsbury, " at the end 

 of October 1841 ;" and since then several have been met with. Mr. J. E. Harting, in his 

 ' Handbook,' refers to the above occurrence, and also to five others : — two near Brighton, one in 

 1854 and another in 1858 ; one in Scilly in September 1854 ; and two near Southampton, in 1852 



