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(122) Anthus cockburnke. — The Rufous Rock-pipit. 



Oates, No. 843. 



This is a resident but rare bird. I have only one specimen shot at 

 Ponmudi in August, 1900, at an elevation of 3,500 feet on a grass hilJ 

 thickly strewn with rocks and boulders. 



(123) Anthus striolatus. — Blyth's Pipit. 

 Oates, No. 846 ; Jerdon, No. 601. 

 Blvth's Pipit is a winter visitor and may be found in fairly large 

 numbers in the dry paddy fields in February and March after the 

 crops have been cut. 



(124) Anthus rufulus. — The Indian Pipit. 

 A permanent resident and very numerous both in the low country 

 in dry paddy fields and in the hills on open grass ridges in the south 

 at all elevations, and also on the High Range. 



Family ALAUDIDjE. 



(125) Alauda gulgula. — The Indian Sky-lark. 



Oates, No. 861 ; Jerdon, No. 7b* 7. 

 The Indian Sky- lark is common on the High Range where I once 

 shot one perched on the telegraph wire. It is also found in the 

 plains where there is grass land and in dry paddy fields after the 

 crops are cut. 



(126) Mirafra affinis. — The Madras Bush-lark. 



Oates, No. 876 ; Jerdon, No. 755. 

 This bird is common in the plains where it may be found in grass 

 lands, sometimes in flocks and sometimes solitary. It is fond of 

 perching on the ridge of a house-top whence it soars a few feet into 

 the air, uttering a shrill trilling note in monotone. I took a nest 

 containing a single egg in the Public Gardens on April 26th, 1902. 

 It was placed in a depression of the ground forming a shallow cup 

 more or less domed over. The material of the nest was mostlv grass 

 and the inside was lined with dried soft grass. The ejrg was somewhat 

 elongated of a dull pale ashy- white, speckled with rusty and brown 

 markings. It measured 19 mm. X 16 ram. 



(127) Galerita malabarica. — The Malabar Cresied-lark. 

 Oates, No. 876 ; Jerdon, No. 768. 

 I have only seen and collected this bird on the High Range at 

 6,000 feet elevation. Here it is fairly abundant, going about usu.dly 



