7. MELANOCORTPHA. .551 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Col. War. 

 Col. Biddulph [C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Seebohm CoU. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



4. Melanocorypha sibirica. 



Alauda calandra {nee L.), Fall. Eeis. Bms. Eeichs, ii. p. 708 (1773), 



iii. p. 697, note (1776). 

 White- winged Lark, Lath. Gen. 8ijn. ii. pt. 2, p. 383 (1783). 

 Alauda sibirica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 7'J9 (1788) ; Sehl. liev. C'rit. 

 p. Ix (1844) ; Hadde, lieis. Slbh:, Vuy. p. 146, note (1863) ; Bree, B. 



Eur. ii. pi. to p. 200 (1866) ; Elwes ic Buekley, Ibis, 1870, p. 195; 



Hartiny, Handb. Brit. B. p. Ill (1872); Fnise/i, Bels. W.-Siblr. 



p. Ill (1879); 6'eeb. Hist. Brit. B. ii. pp. 279, 282 (1884); 



Saunders, Illustr. Man. Brit. B. p. 247 (1889). 

 Alauda leucoptera. Pall. Zooyr. Bosso-Asiat. i. p. 518, tab. xxxiii. 



fig. 2 (1811); Nordm. in Dimid. Voy. Btiss. Merid. iii. p. 170 



(1840) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Fritsch, Voy. Eur. 



tab. xvi. fig. 14 (1870) ; Homeiier Sc Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien 



1883, p. 90. 

 Pbileremos sibirica. Keys. (§• Bias. Wirb. Exir. p. 153 (1840) ; Borqar. 



Voyelf. Norddcutschl. p. 70 (1869). 

 Melanocorypha leucoptera, Bp. Consp. p. 243 (1850) ; Grai/, Iland-l. 



B. ii. p. 120, no. 7783 (1870) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 67 



(1873) ; Gouhl, B. Gt. Brit. iii. pi. 20 (1873) ; 8eeb. Ibis, 188"^ 



p. 217 ; Irby, Key List Brit. B. p. 21 (1888). 

 Calandra leucoptera, Dubois, Ois. Bely. pi. 102 ^. (1858). 

 Melanocorvpba sibirica, Eeyl et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 352 (1867) • 



Rowley,' P. Z. S. 1870, p. b2 ; id. Zool. 1870, p. 2066; Bond, t. c. 



p. 2022 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 373, pi. 240 (1873) ; Neicton, ed. 



Yarrell, i. p. 642 (1874) ; Danford 8,- Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1875 



p. 311 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 183 ; Giyl. Ibis, 1881, p. 200; B. 



O. U. List Brit. B. p. 73 (1883) ; Seeb. Ibis, 1883, p. 12 ; Badde 



Orn Cauc. p. 204 (18S4) ; Salvad. Elench. Ucc. Itul. p. 156 (1886) • 



Giyl. Av. Ital. p. 57 (1886), and '[st Eesoc. p. 119 (1889;. 

 Pallasia leucoptera, E. von Ilomeyer, J. f. O. 1 873, p. 190. 

 Calandrella leucoptera, Boyd. B. Cauc. p. 76 (1879). 



Adult male. Above brown, streaked -with median blackish centres 

 to the feathers of the back and rump ; upper tail-coverts ferrugi- 

 nous brown towards the edges, which arc margined with white • 

 lesser wing-coverts bright ferruginous, forming a large shoulder- 

 patch ; median and greater series blackish brown, with ferruginous 



