RICHARD'S PIPIT.— SHORE-LARK. 107 



man who' caught it said that he was struck by its loud 

 notCj and drove it about nearly two days before he could 

 get it into the net, in which there was nothing to attract 

 it. In 1867 Mr. Monk obtained a specimeu, taken near 

 Brighton, October 9th (Zoologist, p. 1017); and in the 

 volume for 1868 (p. 1478, s. s.) Mr. Rowley states that one 

 was taken near Brighton October 5th, and that it was moult- 

 ing all over, the tail being only half-grown, and remarks that 

 it was very late, all the other Pipits moulting in August. 



Mr. Wonfor, in the 'Zoologist' for 1869 (p. 1513, s.s.), 

 states that four specimens had been shot within the last 

 month (November), and in 1870, at p. 1984 of the same 

 journal, Mr. Bond, giving a list of rare birds he had seen at 

 Mr. Pratt's, states thus : — " I have seen in all eleven speci- 

 mens of the Richard's Pipit, the first taken in the first week 

 in September, and the last on the 6th of December of the 

 present year." 



ALAUDID^. 



SHORE-LAEK. 



Otocorys alpestris. 



Since the first British specimen obtained at Sherringham, 

 in Norfolk, in 1830, the Shore-Lark has been found, some- 

 times in large flocks, on various parts of the coast, extending 

 as far westward as Weymouth, where, about the 30th of 

 November 1869, I saw eleven in the flesh, which had been 

 shot on Lodswell Marsh, of which seven were females. The 

 notices of the occurrences of this bird in Sussex are not, 

 however, very numerous. I have a specimen in my own 

 collection, killed in March 18/0, at Rottingdean. In Yar- 



