10. ALAUDA. 569 



? Alanda incou^picua, Severfz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 142 (1873) *. 

 Alauda triboilivncha {nee Hod(js.), Hume ^- Henderson., Lahore to 



Yark. p. -im, pi. 28 (1873) ; kevertz. J.f. O. J875, p. 193 ; id. Sir. 



F. 1875, p. 424; Hume, 8tr. F. 1879, p. 109. 

 Alauda guttata, Brooks, J. A. S. Beng. xli. pt. 2, p. 73 (1873); id. 



Str. F. 1873, p. 485 ; Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 90 ; Scdh/, t. c. p. 583 ; 



Brooks, Ibis, 1885, p. 389 ; Scull!/, J- ^- 'S- Bern/. Ivi'. p. 84 (1887). 

 Alauda gulgula {nee Frankl.), Harsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. F.I. 



Co. ii. p. 467 (1856, pt.) ; Anders. Zool. Fxped. Yun-nan, Birds, 



p. 605 (1878) ; Marsh. Ibis, 1884, p. 421. 

 Alauda sp., Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 69 (1884). 

 ? Alauda nana, Giyl. Avif. Ital. p. QR, note (1886). 

 Alauda blakistooi, Stejii. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. p. 98 (1884); id. 



Ball. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 234 (1885). 



AdnU male in ivinter j^ihwiaf/e. BrOwn, streaked with black centres 

 to the feathers, the scapulars and lower mantle with grey edges 

 to the plumes ; the mantle contrasting somewhat with the rest of 

 the back by reason of broad rufescent margins to the inner webs ; 

 a few feathcr.s marked with terminal edges of ashy fulvous, espe- 

 cially on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and quills 

 dark brown, margined with tawny buff, ashy on tlie edges, and 

 inclining to whity brown on the greater coverts; the first long 

 primary white along the outer web ; the secondaries externally 

 rufous, the inner primaries fringed with white at the ends, all 

 but the innermost secondaries tipped with white ; inner secon- 

 daries and centre tail- feathers blackish brown, edged with sandy 

 or tawny buff ; the penultimate tail-feather' white along the 

 outer web, the external feather white excepting for an oblique 

 blackish mark extending up the inner web ; head crested, like the 

 back, the hind neck slightly paler and the mesial black streaks 

 to the feathers shorter and broader ; lores whitish ; eyebrow isabeU 

 line, as also the feathers below the eye ; ear-coverts rufous-browa 

 with broad black streaks : cheeks and sides of face isabelliiie bull", 

 with numerous tiny triangular spots of black ; throat white, the 

 adjoining sides of the neck also whitish, the throat dotted with 

 minute triangular spots of blackish ; the lower throat more dis- 

 tinctly lin(^d with black streaks, which are developed into broader 

 spot-like markings on the fore neck and chest, becoming more 

 longitudinal on the sides of the breast and flanks ; the fore neck, 

 chest, and sides of body washed with tawny buff and a little rufous ; 

 remainder of under si;rface of body pure white, including the under 

 tail-coverts; thighs pale sandy buff; under wing-coverts and axil^ 

 laries dark ashy isabelline { quills dark ashy below, lighter ashy 

 along the inner web : " bill dark greyish brown above and at the 

 point of lower mandible, yellowish brown at the edge of upper 

 mandible ; the lower flesh-coloured tinged with blue ; feet yel- 

 lowish brown ; iris hazel" (J. Maet/iUivrai/). Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0"55, wing 4-5, tail 2-8, tarsus 1. 



* Severtzoif afterwards identified this S]3ecies witli A. guhjula, which it is 

 hardly likelj to have been, though it was very possibly A. Uopus. [(V. Str. P. 

 1875, p. 424.] Cf. also Dresser, Ibis, 1870, p. 181. 



