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A supra fcrruginca, infra sordide alba; guia, gutturc pectoreque nigro-brunneo strigatis; supercilns sub-
„chreis; remigibus brunneis; reotridbusTügro-brunneis, quatuor extends, extern« rufo-margmatis,
duabus mediis ferrugineis; rostro bruunco, mandibulü versus basin sub-flava; pedibtts flavo-brunne.8 ,
oculis brunneis.
Longitüeo corporis cum capitc 4. unc. 3 lin.; caudffi 3 unc. 2 lm.
C olour.—The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back and sides of
neck, thé back, rump, shoulders, scapulars, two or three innermost tertianes,
and two centre tail-feathers, bright ferrugineous red; the under parts dull-
white, the breast and belly faintly tinted with buff-orange, and the throat
breast, and flanks, variegated with oblong dark-brown spotó-one spot
towards the point of. each feather. The white of the chin is faintly mottled
with some dusky tints, and the commencement of the throat is margined
on each side by a blackish line, which commences at the base of the lower
mandible, and terminates below the points of the ear-coverts. Eye-brows
dirty ochre-yellow. The lesser wing coverts, the primary and secondary
quill coverts, the primary and secondary quill feathers, and a stripe along
the middle of the two or three innermost of the tertiaries, light umber-brown ;
the lesser coverts are edged and tipt with ferrugineous passing into white,
and the quill coverts, together with the secondary quills and the Pn “ arf i
towards their base, edged externally with rusty white. Tad with the
exception of the two feathers already mentioned, dark umber-brown, the
outermost feather of each side broadly edged externally with rufous white, and
the one next in succession narrowly with the same colour. Bill dark yellowish
«Such naturalists as find characters by which the thick-billed Larks maybe separated from those in
which the bill is less developed, would probably place this species with the former
inability to discover fixed characters by which the limits of the two groupes could be defined and as we
have examined many species which we could not with certainty refer to erther, provided the division
was to be adopted, we think it better to include both kinds under Alauda.