RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 
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SHORE LARK. 
Alauda Alpestris. Linnaius. 
The title of this bird to be admitted into our indigenous 
lists, rests upon a notice by William Yarrell, Esq. (which will 
be found in the fourth volume of “Loudon’s Magazine,” page 
116,) of a specimen, killed on the beach near Sherringham, in 
March 1830, which passed into the hands of Mr. Sims, of 
Norwich, by whom it was preserved ; and it is now in the 
collection of Edward Lombe, Esq. of Great Milton. 
This bird inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and 
America. An account of it is given in “ Pennant’s Arctic 
Zoology;” in “The Fauna Boreali Americana,” by Messrs. Ri- 
chardson and Swainson, under the name of A. Cornuta ; and 
in “ Wilson’s American Ornithology.” It breeds far north, and 
is found in the United States, during the winter, in considerable 
abundance. 
The male Shore Lark has the upper parts of the head, 
neck, and lesser wing coverts, purplish brown ; upper tail 
