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ALAUDIDvE. 
1846-47, the whole coast was covered with these birds. The 
distance thence to England being so short, he is surprised they 
are not occasionally common in the latter country. But he is 
certain that they could not escape notice, owing to the “constantly 
upright position of the crest.” 
A specimen of this bird shot in the island of Paros, in 
June, 1841, came under my inspection. Alauda of some kind 
flew on board H.M.S. Beacon, on the 25th and 26th of April, 
1841, between Malta and the Morea, but none of them being 
taken, the species cannot be announced with certainty. Eor the 
same reason, the species, or even genus of several Alauda or 
Anthi, which we saw near the summit of the highest mountain 
in the island of Syra, on the 7th of May, could not be positively told. 
They were similar in size to the titlark ( Anthus pratensis ), but of 
a lighter colour on the under plumage : legs flesh-colour. The 
beautiful pied wheatear, as already noticed, was in the same 
locality. 
Yery few examples of the Shore Lark, Alauda alpestris , have 
been obtained in England : it has not yet been observed in Scot- 
land (Jard. and Macg.) or Ireland. The Short-toed Lark, Alauda 
bracJiydactyla , is only known as British, from a specimen taken near 
Shrewsbury. (Yarr.) 
THE WOODLARK. 
Alauda arbor ea, Linn. 
Is a resident, but very local species, 
And one of those unobtrusive birds, little known except to the 
lover of nature, by whom it is perhaps valued the more on that 
account. It is not under any circumstances to be met with in 
flocks like the skylark. So very choice is the woodlark in the place 
of its abode, as to be singularly local. In the counties of Down and 
Antrim, it frequents districts where the soil is warm, the country 
well cultivated and wooded, or scenery, which, like its song, is of a 
sweet, soft character; — cold clay districts, though equally im- 
proved and sheltered, cannot, so far as known to me, claim it for 
