ALAUDIDiE. 
it will have a new nest and eggs twice again, at least, 
and not far from the original spot. It breeds on the 
high lands in the north of Lapland, quite in the interior 
of the country. In the autumn flocks of it are to be 
seen in the corn-fields like common larks in other coun¬ 
tries on their way south along the course of the rivers.” 
Audubon found the Shore Lark breeding “ on the high 
and desolate tracts in the vicinity of the sea ” building 
its nest upon patches of lichen with which the stony 
surface is decorated, which he describes as beautifully 
varied, green and pure white, and every tint of colour. 
Of the eggs figured, whilst one has the character of 
those of the wood lark, the other has quite the appear¬ 
ance of eggs of the sky lark, one of them is crossed by a 
black line like the eggs of the reed fauvette, a peculiarity 
which I have not before noticed in eggs of this genus. 
