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DARTFORD WARBLER. Melizophilus Provincialis. Jen- 
yns, p. 112. Bewick’s Bs\ B., vol. 1, p. 216. Local, and 
very uncertain in its haunts. 
* GOLD CRESTED WREN. Regulus Aurocapillus. Jen- 
yns, p. 113. Bewick’s Br. B., vol. 1, p. 235. Common. 
The Fire Crested Wren, which has been confounded with 
this, has also been reported to me, but I have not examined 
a Cornish Specimen, 
WAGTAILS. 
* PIED WAGTAIL. Motacilla Alba. Jenyns, p. 114. 
Bewick’s Br. B., vol. 1, p. 204. Dishwasher. (M. Yar- 
relli, of Gould, who has pronounced it to be different front 
the M. Alba of Linneus. Loudon’s Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, 
p. 459.) Common, without changing its quarters according 
to the seasons, as in the North of England, 
* GREY WAGTAIL. \1. Boarula. deny ns, p. 115. Be- 
wick’s Br. B., vol. 1, p. 206. Chiefly a Winter Visitor, but 
some remain to breed ; for which purpose they quit the Sea 
Shore, and resort to the neighbourhood of our smaller 
streams. 
* YELLOW WAGTAIL. AT. Flava. Jenyns, p. 115. Be- 
wick’s Br. B., vol. 1, p. 207. Rarer than either of the for- 
mer, and in Autumn and Winter only. 
LARKS. 
* TITLARK. Anthus Pratensis. Jenyns, p. 117. Bewick’s 
Br. B., vol. 1, p. 201. Common, but changing its quarters. 
It is much subdued by Cold in Winter. 
* TREELARK. A.Arbnreus. Jenyns, p. 118. Bewick’s Br. 
B., vol. 1, Sup. p. 28. In Summer. 
SHORE LARK. A. Petrosvs. Jenyns, p. 118. Bewick’s 
Br. B., vol. 1, Sup., p. 26. Fieldlark. Common and 
abundant at all Seasons; but numbers, in small flocks, 
are seen by Fishermen crossing the Channel from France, 
in Spring. 
* SKYLARK. Alauda Arvensis. Jenyns, p. 127. Bewick’s 
Br. B., vol. 1, p. 195. Abundant, but increasing in num- 
bers in Cold Winters. 
The following incident is deserving of being recorded, as 
an illustration of the Natural History of this Bird : on the 
29th of October, 1835, as my informant and another indivi- 
dual were standing in conversation in a Geld, and within three 
or four feet of each other, their attention was attracted to a 
Kestril in active pursuit of a Lark, on which it had made 
some unsuccessful pounces. They hollood loudly, with the 
hope of scaring away the Hawk, but in vain ; their shouts 
however had the effect of causing the Lark to fly towards them, 
