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INTRODUCTION. 
145. Alauda arborea ........... Vol. III. PI. XVI. 
Wood-Lark. 
A cheery little songster, very local in its habitat, breeds in many of tbe English counties ; supposed to 
migrate from us to the southward in the winter ; but Mr. Blake Knox states that it is abundant at that 
season in the county of Dublin, and also that it breeds there. It is about as numerous in Scotland as it is 
in England ; and IVIr. Harting states it has been found as far north as the Orkney Islands. 
Genus Galerita. 
146. Galerita cristata ........... Vol. III. PI. XVII. 
Crested Lark. 
A bird of France and many other parts of the European continent, and even of other more distant 
countries. Although common on the roads between Calais and Boulogne, it seldom crosses the Channel to 
pay Albion’s shores a visit ; here, indeed, it is so scarce that it must be enumerated among our accidental 
visitors. 
Genus Otocoris. 
Of this ornamental section of the Larks there are about ten known species, six or seven inhabiting the 
Old World, and three the New. All are more or less ornamented with small pencilled plumes springing 
from above the eye, and have much of their plumage suffused with yellow and pinky brown. Their head 
quarters are Eastern Europe, Palestine, Afghanistan, the Altai, and the highlands of Asia generally. 
147. Otocoris alpestris .......... Vol. III. PI. XVIII. 
Shore-Lark. 
This bird has appeared here so frequently of late that it may almost be termed a regular winter visitant. 
Lord Lllford bas recorded, in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1852, an instance of its nesting in Devonshire. 
Genus Melanocorypha. 
A little group of thick-billed Larks, comprising five or six species ; almost exclusively inhabit the central 
and eastern regions of Asia. 
148. Melanocorypha calandra . . . . • • • • • • Vol. III. PI. XIX. 
Calandra Lark. 
A common species in most of the champaign parts of Central and Southern Europe ; but a purely accidental 
visitor to England, two instances only of its occurrence here being on record, both in Devonshire. 
