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genus Megalurus, which however has the feet much larger, the 

 wings of a different form, and seems to belong to the Turdinae. 

 Not having access to any of the British specimens, and having 

 failed in procuring a foreign one, I have been obliged to com- 

 pile the above account from the descriptions of Messrs Roux, 

 Temminck, Vigors, Yarrell, and Vieillot. 



Under the name of the " Lark from Pensilvania" Edwards 

 figured a Pipit, which can be no other than the Alauda rufa of 

 Wilson, referred erroneously by ]Mr Swainson to Anthus aqua- 

 ticus, and which Lichtenstein, as well as the Prince of Musig- 

 nano, has named Anthus ludovicianus, it being Alauda ludo- 

 viciana of Gmelin and Latham. Of this American bird I have 

 now before me six specimens, and am thus enabled to say 

 with certainty that it is different from any of the species de- 

 scribed in this volume. Edwards says, " It is a bird common 

 to Europe and North America : I have found it in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London." JSIontagu also describes a bird which 

 he conceives to be the same, and which he names Red Lark, 

 Alauda rubra. Dr Fleming and other compilers have a Red 

 Lark, which they consider as an Alauda, not an Anthus ; but 

 Edwards's bird is a Pipit ; and, although his figure is incorrect, 

 and coloured too red, is very difficult to be distinguished from 

 Anthus pratensis. It is possible that we may have this Anthus ; 

 but the Red Lark of INIontagu is clearly quite different, and 

 probably a variety of the Sky Lark. 



