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ALAUDA CRISTATA. 

 CRESTED LARK. 



(Plate 15.) 



Alauda senegalensis oristata, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 362 (1760). 



Alauda cristata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 288 (1766) ; et auctoruin plurimorum — 



Omelin, Scopoli, Latham, Temminck, Naumann, (Bonaparte), {Degland ^ Oerbe), 



Newton, (Dresser), &c. 

 Alauda cochevis, Miill. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 184 (1776). 

 Alauda senegalensis, Miill. Natursyst. Suppl. p. 137 (1776). 

 Alauda matutina, BodA. Tall. PI. Enl. p. 40 (1783). 

 Alauda undata, Chnul. Syst. Nat. i. p. 797 (1788). 

 Alauda galerita, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 524 (1826). 

 Galerida cristata (Linn.), Boie, Isis, \SS8, p. 321. 

 LuUula cristata (Linn.), Kaup, Nat. Syst. pp. 92, 192 (1829). 

 Galerida yiarum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 315 (1831). 

 Alauda chendoola, Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 119. 

 Heterops cristatus (Linn.), Hodgs. dray's Zool. Mise. p. 84 (1844). 

 Certhilauda chendoola (Franklin), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 962 (1844). 

 CerthUauda boysii, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. p. 41 (1846). 

 Galerida chendoola (Franklin), Blyth, Cat. As. Soc. Mus. p. 133 (1848). 

 Galerida abyssinica, Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 

 Galerida senegalensis (Qmel.), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 

 Galerida boysii [Blyth), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850). 

 Galerita cristata (Linn.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 125 (1851). 

 Galerita theklae, Brehm, Naumannia, 1858, p. 210. 

 Galerida arenicola, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 58. 

 Galerida brachyura, Tristram, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 435. 

 Alauda cristatella, lleuglin,jide Cab. Journ. Orn. 1868, p. 223. 

 Alauda (Galerita) arenicola ?, Tristram, var. fusca, Blanford, Qeol. ^ Zool. Abyssinia, 



p. 387 (1870). 

 Alauda marginipennis, Pr. Wurt.,Jide Keuglim,, Orn. Nordost-Afr. p, 681 (1871). 



The Crested Lark probably visits our islands more frequently than is 

 supposed ; for partly owing to its habits and partly to its resemblance to 

 the Sky-Lark it is often overlooked. It was first recorded as a British bird 

 in 1836 by an anonymous writer in the ' Dublin Penny Journal^^ who 

 asserted that he had shot an example not far from the Irish capital. 

 Examples have subsequently been obtained in this country, which render 

 its claim to be considered a British bird complete. The first example of 

 this species obtained in England was recorded in the second edition of 

 Yarrell's ' British Birds/ and was killed at Littlehampton, in Sussex ; but 

 the precise date does not seem to be known. Another example was 

 obtained in the same county, at Shoreham, by a bird-catcher, on the 20th 

 of October, 1863 (Dawson Rowley, 'Ibis,' 1864, p. 224). Five examples 



