616 M0TACILLID.5;. 



The male is very miicli larger than the female, having the wing 

 3'3-3'45 inches instead of 3"]. 



Toung (type of A. paUesce^ys). More rufous than the adults, and 

 everj'where broadly edged with deep tawny buff ; ear-coverts rufous, 

 spotted with brown ; under surface deep yellowish buif, with several 

 indistinct triangular spots of dusky brown on the breast and sides 

 of the body ; outer tail-feathers as in the adult, the penultimate one 

 brown along the shaft and at the tip of the outer web. 



The colouring of the penultimate feather seems to me to be a very 

 fair test of the age of the bird, for in }'Oung individuals it is for the 

 most part brown, with a triangular patch of white inserted at the tip 

 of the inner web, this patch gradually extending with age until it 

 occupies the entire outer web, leaving only the shaft and an oblique 

 mark on the inner web brown. 



Hah. The whole of Australia and Tasmania. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. Juv. sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P-]. 



(Type of A. pallescens.) 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Australia. India Museum. 



f^g. c? $ ad. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



/(, i. (S ad. sk. South Australia. Gould Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. Eiver Darling. Gould Collection. 



I. Ad. sk. Melbourne. Gould Collection. 



m, w. c? 5 ad. sk. MoretonBay (-F. *S'</'a?i^e). Gould Collection. 



0, jo, q. Ad. sk. Tasmania. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



r. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



s. Ad.sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition [C.]. 



t. Ad. sk. Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



u. Skeleton. Australia. Purchased. 



32. Anthus novae zealandise, 



New-Zealand Lark, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 284, pi. li. (1783). 



Alauda novas zealandife, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 799 (1788, ex Lath.) ; 

 Gray, App. to Dieffenb. Voy. New Zealand, ii. p. 192 (184.3). 



Anthus novse zealandise, Gray, Toy. Erebus Sf Terror, Birds, 

 p. 4 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 206 "(1847) ; Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 249 

 (1850) ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 224 ; Pelz. Beis. Novara, Vog. p. 69 

 (1865) ; Brdler, Essay Orn. Neic Zeal. p. 9 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 252, no. SGoS (1869) ; Potts, Trans. Nexo-Zeul. Inst. ii. 

 p. 61 (1869), iii. p. 76 (1870); Hutton, Cat. B. Neiv Zectl. p. 13 

 (1871) ; Finsch, J. f. 0. 1872, p. 162 ; id. Trans. New-Zeal. List. 

 V. p. 208 (1872) ; JI. 4- W. Tracers, t. c. p. 216 ; Bidler, B. Neiv 

 Zeal. p. 132 (1873) ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1874, p. 132; Sharpe, Voy. 

 Ereb. ^ Terr., Birds, App. p. 26 (1876) ; Bull. Man. Neiv-Zeal. 

 Birds, p. 24 (1882) ; Finsch, Ibis, 1882, p. 395. 



Alauda littorea, Forsfer, Descr. Anim. p. 90 (1844). 



Anthus grayi, Bp. Cotisp. i. p. 249 (18.50) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. 

 p. 252, no. 3660 (1869) ; Huttoti, Cat. B. Neiv Zeal. p. 13 (1871). 



