WOOD-LARK— CRESTED LARK— SHORT-TOED LARK. 97 
observer, for it is really comparatively little known and has 
generally been but little observed. 
[Alauda cristata. Crested Lark. 
In the "Zoologist" for 1877 Hadfield asserts that one 
was captured in the Isle of Wight, but we do not consider 
the evidence sufficient.] 
Genus — Calandrella. 
102. Calandrella brachydactyla. Short-toed Lark. 
A rare accidental visitor. 
The Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett records the first Hamp- 
shire specimen in the " Zoologist" of 1862. It was caught 
by a bird-catcher in the winter of 186 1-2 on the borders of 
the New Forest, near Southampton, and lived in Mr. 
Bartlett's aviary for some months, until it was accidentally 
killed. 
The same bird-catcher is stated to have captured another 
ten years before in the same district. 
In Dr. A. G. Butler's work on British Birds it is recorded 
that one caught near Portsmouth was exhibited at the 
Crystal Palace Bird Show in 1890. 
