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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Mr. G. A. B. Dewar, in his " Hampshire Highlands," 
gives the following extracts from the diary of the Rev. 
Henry White, who was Rector of Fyfield, and brother 
of Gilbert White :— 
" 1781. April 19th: Boys went to Abbot's Anne 
Wood, brought home two young ravens nearly 
fledged." 
" 1784. 8th October : Ravens and rooks on ye trees 
warbling." 
Fa M I IX— A latidida. 
Genus — Alauda. 
100. Alauda arvensis. Sky-lark. 
" The lark has past from earth to heaven upon the morning breeze I " 
Tennyson's " The Flight.^'' 
A very common resident in all parts. 
In winter its numbers are greatly increased by migrants 
and the late Henry Stevenson, describing a great immigra- 
tion which arrived on the coast of Norfolk in January, 
1 88 1, says that there was a great passage on the very same 
day at Lyndhurst, all going south-west.^ 
101. Alauda arborea. Wood-lark. 
" While high in air, and poised upon his wings, 
Unseen, the soft enamour'd woodlark sings." 
" The NaturalisVs Summer Evening IVa/k." 
A resident, ot local distribution, both on the main- 
land and in the Isle of Wight. 
' '* Zoologist." 1883. 
