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WHITE-WINGED LARK. 
Aaupa siBfrica, J. F. Gmelin. 
Anexample of this Eastern species, which had been captured alive 
near Brighton on November 22nd 1869, when associating with a 
flock of Snow-Buntings, was recognized on the same day by the late 
Mr. G. Dawson Rowley and subsequently exhibited at a meeting of 
the Zoological Society. It proved to be a female, and is now in the 
collection of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. 
An occasional visit from the White-winged Lark is not surprising, 
for three specimens have already been obtained in Belgium: one in 
October 1855 near Litge, another at Malines (or Mechlin) in 1856, 
and a third near Namur. On Heligoland one was taken on August 
2nd 1881, and, although the occurrence of this species is not yet 
authenticated in Northern Germany, its visits to Poland and Galizia 
are not infrequent ; while stragglers have been recorded—always on 
the autumn migration—from Trent in Tyrol, as well as Verona and 
Bergamo in Italy. On the ‘black-earth’ plains of Russia as far 
north as Saratov on the Volga this Lark is a common breeding 
species, and it visits Southern Russia and portions of Turkey in 
winter ; while eastward, it can be traced through the Kirghis steppes 
to the Altai Mountains, and as far north as to Omsk on the Irtish. 
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