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where it is replaced by a slightly different race. It is 

 migratory in the northern part of its range, wintering 

 in southern Europe and northern Africa. It is represented 

 by other subspecies in parts of northern and central Asia 

 and north-west Africa. 



Alauda arvensis cinerascens. Eastern 

 Sky-Laek. 



Alauda cinerascens Ehmcke, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1904, 

 p. 31i : Barnaul, W. Siberia. 



Alauda arvensis cinerea IllimcTce ; Clarice, Ann. Scottish N. H. 

 1906, p. 139. 

 Cmei'ascens =beooining grey. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. 

 Has occurred at the Flannan Islands, Outer Hebrides, Feb. 

 1906 ; Head of Kinsale, co. Cork, Oct. 1910, and Tuskar 

 Rock, CO. Wexford, Ireland. 



General Distribution. — The Eastern Sky-Lark breeds in 

 western Siberia, Turkestan, and parts of Persia. It is 

 plentiful in winter on the north side of the Caucasus and 

 also occurs in Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt during that season. 



Genus LULLULA Kaup, Naturl. Syst. 1829, p. 92. 

 Type: L. arbor ea (Linn.). 

 IjuUula, a name given from the note " Lu-lu." 



LuUula arborea. Wood-Lark. 



Alauda arborea Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 166 : 



Sweden. 



Alauda arborea Linn. ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 71 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 251. 

 Lullula arborea (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. 1890, 



p. 636. 



Arborea = frequenting trees. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — Resident. Locally 



