. The sportsman's British bird book . lightly smaller than theirmates. Considerable variationin size and colouring is, how-ever, noticeable ; residentBritish birds being smaller andpaler than the arrivals fromabroad in autumn. Indeed, ithas been proposed to distin-guish the Scottish lark as aseparate race, with the name lark. A. arvensis scot tea. Young larks may be recognised by the mottled appearance of the upper-parts,due to dark brown spotting on a sandy buff ground, and white horse-shoe-shaped markings formed by the pale edges of the feathers. Breeding as far north as, or even a little wi
. The sportsman's British bird book . lightly smaller than theirmates. Considerable variationin size and colouring is, how-ever, noticeable ; residentBritish birds being smaller andpaler than the arrivals fromabroad in autumn. Indeed, ithas been proposed to distin-guish the Scottish lark as aseparate race, with the name lark. A. arvensis scot tea. Young larks may be recognised by the mottled appearance of the upper-parts,due to dark brown spotting on a sandy buff ground, and white horse-shoe-shaped markings formed by the pale edges of the feathers. Breeding as far north as, or even a little within, the Arctic Circle,the sky-lark is spread all over Europe, although represented in thesouth by a paler form, which, however, like other light-coloured phasesmet with in Asia from the Himalaya to China and Japan, is bestregarded merely as a local race. With regard to habits, it will sufficeto state that although the lark is a resident British species, yet a greatnumber migrate into the southern districts in winter, where they are. 548 PERCHING BIRDS reinforced by a large influx of strangers from east and north-east the end of Januar\- 1907, a flock of black larks {Aiaudayeltoniensis), of which several were taken, visited south-eastern England. The short-toed lark {Calandrella brachydactyla), representing agenus distinguished from Alauda by the smaller bodily size of itsmembers, their relatively longer wings, and the curved claw of the hind-toe, is too rare a visitor to the British Islands to be accorded a definiteplace in the list. Up to the year 1908 only eleven instances of theoccurrence of their species appear to have been recorded ; most ofthese being from the south coast of England, although one specimenis Irish, and another was taken in the Outer Hebrides (FlannanIslands) in 1904, while a fourth occurred in Fair Isle in 1907. Thislark is a southern species, breeding in the south of France, and thencethrough the Mediterranean countries as far east as Turke
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