MELANOCORTPHA, 559 



p. -10 (lb/ /) ; Baiid ^- Oust. Oi.s. Chine, p. 319, pi. 88 (1877). 



P ?46/S m° %-f fiSr' "' ''"''''' "^'^ ^'''''' W. ii. 



PaUa|a^mongolicaU; i'on Homeycr, J.f. O. 1873, p. 100: S/mrpe, 



Adult male. Similar to .17. slblrica, but larger, with more white 

 ou the outer secondaries, which have only a small base of black • 

 pnmary-coverts brown, with pale margins like the primaries: on 

 the sides of the fore neck a large patch of black which meets across 

 the lore neck and forms a distinct collar, very narrow in the centre • 

 croAvn of head and hmd neck rufous or chestnut, with a li-ht natch 

 in the centre of the crown ; a broad white eyebrow produced back- 

 wards till it joins a creamy-buff hand round the nape: " biU cleir 

 flesh-colour; legs and feet reddish brown; toes reddish yellow- 

 claws brown ; iris ashy brown " (A. David). Total length 8-^ 

 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 5'8, tail 3-2, tarsus 1 



The wings_of the series of Mongolian Larks in the Museum rau<^e 

 from 4-9 to o-O inches, and from 5-25 to 5-4 inches. The former 

 are probably female birds, but unfortunately none are marked The 

 larger birds are marked as males. 



In ^^inter plumage the light patch on the head is much more ex- 

 tensive and the whole of the upper surface is much more fulves- 

 cent ; the black on the fore neck is interrupted in the middle 

 ihere is a decided ashy shade on the margins of the feathers of the 

 upper surface, which disappears as these edges become abraded in 

 summer. 



ffab. Eastern Siberia to Northern China and Kokonoor. 



"■-'^^■'^^- Chma. J. E. Reeves, Esq. [P] 



'>. 6 ad. sk. Pekin, Dec. (P. -SV.W..). sShm Cou"'"""-^ 



c, d e-. Juv. sk. Pekm, July (P. Swin/>oc}. Seebohm Coll 



/. AO. sJv. lientsm, Dec. (P. Swin/we). Seebohm CoU 



</. d ad. sk. Ai-gnu River, Dauria, March A^•al•saw Mas ' FE 1 



29 (Dyboxcski). ^ ■^■ 



h, I. 6 ad. sk. Gobi desert (X PrjewaMa). Seebohm Coll 



h, I, m. S ad. sk. Ivokouoor, March, April, Seebohm Coll 



July {N. Prjeivahki). 



6. Melanocorypha yeltoniensis. 



Alauda yeltoniensis, Forst. Phil. Tran.s. Ivii. p. 3o0 (1767) ; Fimch 

 Verhandl. zool.-hot. Gesellsch. Wien, xxix p -J'^i (hn^ ' 



