. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . er, Zool., 1881, p. 494, and Birds of Sussex, p. reared from nest at Ibiston, near Cambridge, and two years old at date of record : Doggett, Zool., 1883, p. 178. 06s. A common bird in France, it is strange thatit has not been more frequently detected in the Southof England. Apart from its conspicuous crest (tooexaggerated in the accompanying figure, PI. 11, fig. 12),it may be distinguished from the Sky Lark by thered
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . er, Zool., 1881, p. 494, and Birds of Sussex, p. reared from nest at Ibiston, near Cambridge, and two years old at date of record : Doggett, Zool., 1883, p. 178. 06s. A common bird in France, it is strange thatit has not been more frequently detected in the Southof England. Apart from its conspicuous crest (tooexaggerated in the accompanying figure, PI. 11, fig. 12),it may be distinguished from the Sky Lark by thereddish-buff colour of the under surface of the wings,and the comparative shortness of the hind-claws. SHORT-TOED LARK. Alauda brachydactyla, , 5*5 in.; bill, 0*4 in.; wing, 3*4 in.; tarsus,0-75 in. Hab. Central and Southern Europe; Western Asia,and North Africa in winter. One near Shrewsbury, Oct. 25,1841: Yarrell, Brit. near Brighton, Sept. 26, 1854: Hussey, Zool., 1855, p. 4558; Dawson Rowley, Ibis, 1859, p. , Scilly, Sept. 23, 1854: Rodd, Zool, 1854, p. 4477, and Birds of Cornwall, p. , Brighton, April 1858: Dawson Rowley, CJ -T^ o Cj U <L) 0) oo-1 LARKS 369 One near Southampton, 1862, another ten years previously:Pemberton Bartlett, Zool, 1862, p. 7930 ; Wise, NewForest, p. 315. The first-mentioned, bird was takenalive, and an account of its habits in captivity is givenon the page indicated. One, Brighton, Nov. 15, 1873: Dawson Rowley, Field,Nov. 22, 1873 ; Borrer, Birds of Sussex, p. 113. One, South Breydon Marshes, Norfolk: Saunders, ManualBrit. Birds, p. 255. One taken by a bird-catcher near Cambridge, Nov. 1882:Harting, Zool., 1883, p. 33. One, Amberley, Sussex, July 18, 1888, netted by a bird-catcher : H. Saunders, Zool., 1888, p. 350. One, Blackrock Lighthouse, co. Mayo, Oct. 11, 1890 : Bar-rington, Zool., 1891, p. 186; the first recorded fromIreland; A. G. More, Irish Nat, 1892, p. 3. Ohs. By some authors the Short-toed Lar
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