23 FEBRUARY 1918, Page 12

THE LARK.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") &a,—Jut before noon on Monday, February 11th—an unusually warm and sunny day—I heard it lark sing as he rose from a field at Adel, near this city. The flight lasted less than a couple of minutes, and did not reach a height such as is usual later in the year. This is a very early date, and I find F. 0. Morris, in his History of British Birds (Vol. II.), gives February 12th as his earliest record (an observation by Mr. Hepburn).—I am, Sir, &c.,