558 . ALATJDID^. 



edges ; primary-coverts uniform ferruginous ; quills dark brown, 

 the primaries edged with pale rufous at the cuds, the inner ones 

 "white at the tips of the inner web, the secondaries wliito with a 

 blackish base, tlie innermost secondaries brown with ferruginous 

 edgings; tail-feuthers dark brown, with ferruginous margins, very 

 broad on the centre feathers, the rest edged with white along both 

 webs, increasing in extent towards the outer feathers, the outer- 

 most feather being entirely white ; crown of head ferruginous, the 

 hinder crown streaked witli blackish like the hind neck, which is 

 ashy like the sides of the neck ; lores, feathers around and below 

 the eye, as well as a distinct eyebrow, creamy white ; below the 

 eye a slight tinge of rufous, followed by a patch of Avhite on the 

 anterior ear-coverts, the hinder ear-coverts ferniginous, with dusky 

 streaks ; cheeks and throat white, with a row of dusky triangular 

 spots along the malar line, and some more tiny spots on the upper 

 margin of the cheeks ; the dusky spots on the fore neck rather 

 larger ; remainder of under surface of body white, with a tawny 

 tinge on the thighs and sides of the breast, the latter mottled with 

 blackish centres to the feathers, and the sides of the body dis- 

 tinctly streaked with dark brown ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts white, with a reddish tinge along the end of the wing. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 4-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but differing in the colour of 

 the head and ear-coverts, which are ashy brown streaked with 

 black like the back, and only slightly tinged with rufous : the spots 

 on the side of the face and on the throat are more plentiful and 

 more strongly developed than in the male. Total length 6'8 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 4-8, tail 2-25, tarsus 0'85. 



The males have the wing from 4-55-4-9 inches, and the females 

 from 4-0 to 4-4. 



Hah. South-eastern Russia, west in winter to Turkey and even 

 to Italy, having also occurred once in England. Eastwards through 

 Central Asia to the Jenesei. 



a, b. (S 2 ^^- s^^- Haskeuy, Turkey, Jan. Gould Coll. 



{T. liobson). 



c, (I. S ? ad. sk. Southern Russia, April. Hume Toll. 



e. S ad. sk. Crimea. Capt. Blakiston [P.]. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Sarepta. Mr. Brandt. 



f/. d ad. sk. Orenburg. Mr. Brandt. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Russia, April 3 (Br. Tweeddale Coll. 



Severtzoff). 



i. cS ad. sk. Guriev, Nov. 18 {Br. Tweeddale Coll. 



Severtzoff). 



h,l. <3 2 ad. sk. Chimljent, Syr Daria, Severtzoff Coll. 



Jan. 3. 



5. Melanocorypha mongolica. 



Alauda mongolica, Pall. Meis. Suss. Reichs, iii. p. 697 (1776) ; Gm. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 799 (1788) ; Pall. Zoogr. Mosso-Asiat. i. p. 516, 

 Taf. xxxiii. fig. 1 (1811) ; Seeb. Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 282 (1884). 



Mongolian Lark, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 384 (1783). 



Alauda sinensis, Waterh. P. Z. S. 1839, p. CO. 



