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speckled, and spotted with yellowish and m pia brown, having- under- 

 lying spots of faint inky-purple, 



A bird I snared on the nest, in Deesa, laid an ogg in the cage on 

 the following morning; she did not get used to confinement, and was 

 as wild a week after I caught her as she was on the first day, so I 

 released her. 



Deesa, April and August. H. E. Barnes 



Neemach, August. Do. 



758.— THE RUFOUS-TAILED FINCH LARE:. 



Ammomanes phceniciira, Frankl. 



The Rufous-tailed Finch Lark does not occur in Sind, being re- 

 placed there by the Pale Rufous Finch Lark {Ammomanes desert i). 

 Mr. Davidson has never seen this bird in Kanara, and expects it to 

 be quite absent from the Konkan. It is a bird of the plains and does 

 not frequent the higher hills or better wooded districts in the plains ; 

 in all other places it is a common permanent resident. 



The breeding season commences about March, and continues 

 through April to quite the middle of May ; the nests are slight pads, 

 composed of grass stems and roots, scantily lined at times with a few 

 hairs. It is placed on the ground, in a cavity under a clod of earth 

 or stone ; the nest is usually below the surface of the ground. The 

 eggs, usually three, occasionally four (I once found five), are mode- 

 rately long ovals in shape, pinched in a little at one end, and measure 

 085 inches in length by about 0*62 in breadth. In colour they are 

 usually yellowish- or creamy-white, spotted and freckled with yel- 

 lowish- or reddish-brown, with occasionally a few pale inky-jjurple 

 spots intermixed. They are very variable in size, shape, and colour. 

 Mr. Hume gives the size as varying from 0"77 to 0'95 inches in 

 length, and from 0*65 to 0'7o in breadth. 



One clutch I found had the ground colour a pure white, with just 

 a few yellowish-brown specks at the large end. 



Deesa, March. Ajvil and May. 11. E. Barnes. 



Nccmucli, April and May. Do. 



S/iolajHir, March and April. J. Davidson, C. S» 



Khandesh, February and March. Do. 



Nassich, do. Do. 



