7. JrEXANOCORYPHA. 55J 



Key to the Species. 



a. Outer secondaries merely tipped with white. 



a'. Outer tail-feather nearly entirely white, ex- 

 cepting an oblong- brown mark at the base of 

 the inner web ; penultimate tail-feather white 

 ^^at_tip and along the whole of the outer web. 

 a". Smaller: cuhueu 0-6.5 inch, wing o-l inches; 



„ chest washed with buff calandra, p. .551 



b . Mucli larger : culmen 0-9o inch, wing 5-7 



inches ; chest washed with ashy grey''. . . . ma.vhna, p. 5.54 

 b . Outer tail-feather tipped with a spot of white 

 at the end of the inner web, resembling the 

 rest of the tail-feathers in markings himamlata, p. 5.55. 



b. Outer secondaries almost entirely white with a 



blackish base; crown and wing-coyerts brio-ht 

 rufous. " 



c'. Smaller: primary-coy erts rufous; no black 



patch on the sides of the fore neck . sibirica p. 557 



d'. Larger : primary-coyerts brown ; a large black ' 



patch on the sides of the fore neck mongoUca, p 558 



c. Outer secondaries not tipped with white ; entu-e 



plumage black ; 2 streaked with black on the 



'^^'^^ yeltoniensis, p. 559. 



1. Melanocorypha calandra. 



The Calandra, Edwards, Gleanings, ii. p. 122, pi. 268 (1760). 



La Grosse Alouette ou la Calandre, Briss. Om. iii p 352 nl tt 

 %. 2 (1760). ^ ' P ^• 



Alauda calandra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 288 (1766) : Gm. Susf Nat 

 1. p. ^99 (1788) ; Meyer .f Wolf, Tasc/ienb. p. 261 (1810) •' Pall 

 Zoogr.Eosso-Asiat. i. p. 617 (1811) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. i p ^76 

 (1820) ; ^aum. Vog. Ueutschl. iy. pi. 98. fig. 1 (1824) ; MouiOrn 

 Provenge, pi. 185 (1825) ; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, pi. 2 (1827) • 

 ^i^^- ^A'*- ^i'- ^'''"^- P- -^^ (l^-'2) ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 1(32 

 (18.3/ ) ; Cresp. Om. Gard, p. 198 (1840) ; Nordm. in Demid Voi, 

 Buss. Merid. iii. p. 168 (1840) ; 8cM. Rev. Crit. p Ix (1844) • 

 f^'T' ^^^'.1860, p. 2^0 ■ Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 61 ; Lilford^lbil 



?^ \lol \^''%^- f '"■•."• l'-^^'^' '^■"•^^ fi?- (1^67): Smith, 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 44.3; Saunders, Ibis, 18G9, p. 185 ; Fritsch, Voo Eur 

 tab. xyi. tig. 17 (1870); Elices ^- Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p 195 ^ 

 Hartmg, Handb. Br. B. p. Ill (1872) ; Wright, Ibis, 1874, p 9,34' 

 Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 79 (1875); Cordeau.r, Ibis, 1875 p 181- 

 Finsch, Beis. West-Sibir. -p. Ill (1879); Banf. Ibis, 1880, p 95 •' 

 Someyer £ Tancre, MT. om. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 90; Seebohm, 

 Hist. Br. B. n. p. ■282 (1884). 

 La Calandre, Dauhent. PL Enl. v. pi. 363. fig. 2. 

 La Calandre ou Grosse Alouette, Montb. Hid. Nat. Ois. p 49 (1788) 

 Alauda coUaris, P. L. S. Miill. St/st. Nat., Anhang, p. 137 (1776) 

 Calandre Lark, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. ii. pt.2, p. 382 (178.3). 

 Melanocorypha calandra, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322;" Brehm Voo 

 Deutschl.jx 309 (1831) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. .f N. Ame,' 



Horsf. 4- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E. I. Co. ii. p. 470'(1856) ; Jaub. 



