Zoological Society, 351 



*' Although Temminck, in his Monographie de Mammalogie, p. 116, 

 in a note, says the skin of this European Felis is well known amongst 

 the furriers as the Lynx of Portugal, I have nowhere been able to 

 meet with a specimen in London ; and as amongst my friends scarcely 

 any one appeared to be aware of the existence of a Spanish Lynx, I 

 thought it might be acceptable to the members to exhibit specimens 

 in a state of maturity and nonage. In Andalusia, whence the speci- 

 mens come, it is called Gato clavo (clavo meaning the pupil of the 

 eye), illustrative of the spotted character of the skin. Some pea- 

 sants in Andalusia make short jackets of the skins, llie animal 

 inhabits the Sierra Morena. I bought both skins at Seville for thirty 

 reales, about 6s. 3d. Neither the British Museum nor the Zoological 

 Society have specimens. 



" Temminck describes the Pardina as ' Toutes les parties du corps 

 lustre, a peu pres de la m^me teinte que dans le caracal.' This is 

 certainly not the description of my animal, the colour of the adult 

 being reddish gray, and that of the non- adult light fawn ; never- 

 theless there are so many other points common to both, that it would 

 be unadvisable to consider them distinct." 



A specimen of the Alauda Calandra, Linn., from Andalusia, was 

 afterwards exhibited by Col. Sykes, accompanied with the following 

 notice : 



" I brought two specimens of these delightful singing-birds from 

 Andalusia with me this spring ; and on comparing them with the 

 type of the genus, I am satisfied they approximate more closely to 

 the genus Mirafra than to that of Alauda. The bill is infinitely 

 more robust than that of Alauda. The size of the bird is larger, 

 and its ensemble rather that of Mirafra than Alauda, and the inter- 

 nal organization has a close resemblance to the former, in the propor- 

 tional length of the intestines and the colon, in the form of the lobes 

 of the liver, in the spleen, in the size of the gizzard and substance of 

 the digastric muscles, and particularly in the form and position of 

 the cceca. Mr. Yarrell very justly remarks, that the bird in depart- 

 ing from the type of Lark approaches to that of Plectrophanes of 

 Meyer ; but differs from the latter in not having a curved long hind 

 claw, and also in its more robust character ; in short, it has a station 

 between the Larks and the Finches ; it difi^ers also slightly from Mi- 

 rafra in its hind claws being those of a Lark, while its bill and other 

 external and internal characters are those oi Mirafra. On the whole, 

 therefore, it appears desirable to divide the genus Alauda into sub- 

 genera, and constitute the Londra a new subgenus, to which the 



