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This bird was thought by Pallas and Latham to be 
a variety of A . calandra. It is however a very distinct 
species, and the rounder form of the beak, the much 
slighter figure, the more pointed wing, and the difference 
in comparative length of the fourth primary, remove it 
altogether from that hird. 
The Siberian Lark is an inhabitant of Siberia, Tar- 
tary, and Southern Pussia, and rarely of Poland. It is 
also included by Captain Blakiston among the birds 
shot by him in the Crimea. — “Zoologist,” 1857, p. 5509. 
Its habits are described as similar to those of the 
rest of the family. By the kindness of Mr. Tristram, 
I am able to give a figure not only of the bird but 
its egg, both of which that gentleman received from 
Dr. Middendorff. 
The bird has at first sight much the appearance of 
a Bunting'. Captain Blakiston thus describes his meeting 
with it. — “Zoologist,” 5509: — 
‘'A few days after the 5th. of January I was again 
on the qiii vive, as a friend told me he had seen some 
Buntings white below and rusty coloured above; with 
this hint I made for a camp, where he said some had 
been shot, the ground being covered Avith snow, and 
sure enough, on looking over a heap of small birds, I 
found the Calandra Lark, Common Bunting, and another 
new to me, which I put down for distinction as ‘Lark 
Bunting, No. 20,’ the skin as Avell as the sternum of 
which I preserved. The same officer a day or two 
afterwards kindly sent me a specimen of the same bird, 
the M'hite-winged Lark, f Alauda Icucoptera,) a male.” 
This Avas determined afterwards by Mr. Gould, and 
Captain Blakiston gives a long and accurate description 
of it in its Avinter dress. 
M. Ch. F. Dubois has an excellent figure of the 
bird, both in its young and adult plumage, with the 
