Mongolian Larks are very common in the cage-bird trade, or at least were the last time I was able to look. It would be useful if any Society members who are interested could monitor the bird markets and keep a record of the species present. You could submit the records to the Society in the normal way using the Excel spreadsheet that can be downloaded elsewhere on the website. If the records are fairly systematic and cover a reasonably long period of time, it would probably be sufficient to form the basis of a short paper in the HKBR.
Greater Short-toed Lark is an issue, and appears to be somewhat anomalous. The RC is aware of this and has recently acquired the original photos taken by one of the observers. However, assessing this record may take some time given the number of subspecies occurring.
The bird at Pui O was never formally submitted as far as I'm aware.
GeoffC
