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LULLULA ARBOREA. 
Both races o£ the Wood-Lark occur in Palestine in winter 
and early spring, and are commonly met with in the Judsean 
highlands in small flocks. All those I have collected belong 
to pallida, whereas there is an undoubted L. 1. arborea in the 
Tring Collection, collected by Aharoni at Rehoboth in the 
coastal plain on 16. xi. It is still uncertain which is the 
breeding race. 
ALAUDA ARVENSIS. 
Alauda arvensis cinerascens. 
Alauda cinerea Ehmcke, J. f. O. 1903, p. 149 : Siberia, 
preoccupied. 
Alauda cinerascens Ehmcke, J.f. 0. 1904, p. 313: amended 
name for cinerea. 
Alauda cypriaca Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, p. 300 : 
Cyprus. 
Alauda insularis Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, 
p. 300 : Cyprus. 
Both cypriaca and insularis were described from winter 
birds, and a number of such birds which I have examined 
undoubtedly belong to this race and not to cantarella. I 
believe the Sky-Lark does not breed in Cyprus, though it is 
a common winter visitor to that island. 
This grey race of the Sky-Lark is, in a large series, dis¬ 
tinctly paler above and whiter below than cantarella. 
All winter visitors to Greece which I have examined 
belong to this race; also most winter birds to Syria, 
Palestine, and Egypt. In 1920 they had all left Palestine 
for the north between 5. iii. and 10. iii., and they had all gone 
from Egypt by 26. iii. In western Egypt they were very 
common on the coast at Solium and Mersa Matruh in 
January, but in the Fayoum I saw no Sky-larks in January 
1920. 
Alauda arvensis schach. 
Alauda schach Ehmcke, Ann. Mus. Hung. 1904, p. 299 : 
East Persia, 
