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RUFOUS L.,
Description.
Place.
CINEREOUS L,
D escription.
La Variole, Buf. oif. v. p. 63.
Petits Alouette-de Buenos Ayres, PI. enl. 738. f. 1*
r£, H IS is Ewe inches and a quarter long. The bill eight lines,,
and brown: the top of the head and- upper part of the body-
blackifh, mixed with various tints of rufous: the fore part of the-
neck enamelled with the fame : the throat,, and all the under parts:
of the body, white: the greater quills grey, the lefier brown; all of
them edged with, rufous : the tail feathers brownthe eight middle
ones bordered with pale rufousthe two outmoft with white
the legs yellowifh.
We meet with this bird at Buenos Ayres, and elfewhere in the
neighbourhood of the river Plata, in South America.
La Ccr.drille, Buf. oif. v. p. 64.
Lev. Mu/.
J ^ E 'N G T H fix inches.. Bill three quarters of an inch : the
noftrils placed in a.foft membraneous furrow,, but the aperture
very fmall and round: the plumage above, afh-colour t;
quills and tail dark brown : belly and vent white : the outer tail
feathers white on the outfide near the tip : legs dulky.
This I faw in the Leverian colleftion; but whence it came,,
not known.
Buffon mentions a bird, the defcription of which was taken,
from a drawing fent him from the Cape of Good Hope, which pof-
fibly might be the male of this. In his bird the top of the head,
was rufous,forming a kind of hood, which was bordered from the
bill to beyond the eye with white : quills and tail black.
Le
l e Sirli du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. v. p. 65.—PI. enl. 712.
T E N G T H eight inches. Bill black, an' inch long, and
bent towards the point: the upper part of the body is com-
pofed of a mixture of brown, rufous, and white, in different
fhades * : the wing coverts, quills, and tail, brown, edged with
white : the under part of the body white, marked with longitudinal
brown fpots : legs brown the hind claw, feven lines long,,
lirait, and pointed at the end.
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope~
Alauda criftata, tin . SyJT. 1 p. 288. N ‘ 6.— Rrun. orn. p. 64. N° 228.—
Scop. ann. i. p. 128. N° 185. — Kram. el. p. 362.— Mull. p. 29.
N-° 234.— Georgi Reife, p. 173..
1.’Alouette hupée, ou le Coche vit, BrïJ, orn. iii. p. 357. N° 8.
l e Cochevis,. ou la grolfe. Alouette huppée, Buf. of. v. p. 66.—PI. enl. .503,
f. 1.
Alauda crldata major, Raii Syn. p. 69. N° 4.
Heide Lerche, Frifcb,. t. 15.
Lodola cappelluta, Olin, uccel. t.13 .
The Creilod Larla,W ill. orn. p. 208. pi. 40.— Albin, iii. pi, 321
Br. Muf.
^ pH I S : is bigger, than the Sky-lark : length fix. inches and
three quarters. Bill under, three quarters of an inch, and
brown : irides hazel : on the head is a crefl, compofed of feveral
feathers, which are darker than the reft of the plumage, and.
nearly half an inch in length : the back is more cinereous, and
* Many of the feathers are dark brown in the middle, with rufous margins
and. white tips.
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AFRICAN L.
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