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There is likely to be some confusion among the 
Desert Larks, in consequence of the aclojDtion of similar 
names to designate, different birds. Thus the present 
bird is called the Desert Lark, but Mr. Tristram gives 
the names of “Pale Desert Lark” and “Little Desert 
Lark” to two other North African species, while we 
have C. desertorum applied to the Bifasciated Lark. 
Then again, while Schlegel, Degland, and others refer 
the present bird to the Alauda deserti of Lichtenstein, 
Captain Loche, in his “Catalogue of Algerian Birds,” 
following Bonaparte, makes the latter a distinct species, 
under the name of Annomanes deserti. Then again we 
have the name Annomanes isahellina applied to the 
subject of the present notice by Prince Ch. Bonaparte, 
which he gives to a closely-allied species the name of 
Galerida isahellina. Temminck describes our bird as 
Alauda isahellina, while Blippell gave the same desig- 
nation to the Galerida isahellina of Bonaparte. It 
must therefore be strictly borne in mind that the 
species found in Europe is the Alauda isahellina of 
Temminck, and the Desert Lark of Tristram. 
This beautiful and elegant species was first described 
as European by Temminck, in the last edition of his 
“Manual,” in 1840. Its European localities are Greece, 
south of Spain, and Portugal. It inhabits also Egypt, 
Arabia, and the north of Africa. 
For a knowledge of its habits, hitherto recorded as 
unknown, we are indebted to Mr. Tristram, (“Ibis,” 
vol. i, p. 422,) who writes: — A. isahellina, T'emminck, 
occurs first on leaving the Hants Plateaux in small 
numbers, but is more plentiful further south, inhabit- 
ing the open plains, where it is difficult to conceive 
how it finds subsistence. Its lateral range is wide. I 
have obtained it from the frontiers of Morocco to 
