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1921 .] Birds of Macedonia. 
Grarnatna. The rolling; hills between the two last-named 
places were especially good breeding-grounds. These hills 
are very bare. The ground is stony and clothed with short 
grass, with uneven clumps o£ brambles here and there 
which are in some places so dense that they constitute a 
thicket. There is only an occasional group o£ trees or any¬ 
thing that resembles a hedge. It is, in fact, ideal country 
for Shrikes, Buntings, and Whitethroats. I was not in time 
for early eggs, but on the 1st o£ July there were five nests 
each containing four eggs, and in all cases well incubated. 
Young birds seen in the nest at the end of June and begin- 
ning of July. The nests were fairly well made, not models 
of neatness exactly, and usually placed in the thickest part 
of an individual spray on a low bush. None of the nests 
were down in the centre of the bushes, and they were all 
easy enough to find. The male would sit on a top twig 
near the nest, singing. The hen would dart off the nest 
when you had started to poke the bush about with a stick, 
and rarely before. The bushes chosen were mostly below 
the waist in height. 
Lullula arborea. Wood-Lark. 
Seen from Sepl ember onwards. A few in August. Small 
parties of from four to six birds at Baisili in autumn. 
Alauda arvensis. Sky-Lark. 
Frequent, but not found breeding. The level ground 
between Orljak and the river was a good place to find them 
in winter. 
Melanocorypha calandra. Calandra Lark. 
Common, but not nearly so numerous on the Struma plain 
as Galerida cristata. Eggs at intervals in April. 
Calandrella brachydactyla. Short-toed Lark. 
A pair near the Struma on 26 May were probably breeding, 
but I could not find the eggs. Other pairs seen in June on 
the hills (Mirova and Kurkut). Found breeding at Kara- 
suli and Dudular (a camp quite near to Salonica) by Major 
Sladen. 
SER. XI.—VOL. III. 
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