11. CAIANDEELLA. 



585 



b'. Ad. sk. Deccau (Burc/ess). Gould Coll. 



e', d'. J $ ad. North of Ahmednugpur, Nov., Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. Jan. (S. B. Fairbcaik). 



e',f. J'ad. ; g' . Belgaum, Feb. [E. A. Butler). Hume Coll. 



■ 2 ad. sk. 



h' , i'. 2 ad. sk. Maunbhoom, March (i?. C. Tweeddale Coll. 



Beavan). 



k',l',m'. cJ ad. Shillong, Assam, Sept. (J. Cock- Hume Coll. 



sk. burn). 



»'. c? ad. sk. Dibrughur, April (J. R. Cripps). Hume Coll. 



()'. (S ad. sk. Pegu, Sept. 25 {E. W. Oates). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Calandrella thibetana. 



? Calandrella brachydactvla {nee Leisl.), David ^ Oust. Ois. Chine, 



p. 318 (1877) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 390. 

 Calandrella tibetana, Brooks, Str. F. viii. p. 488 (1880). 



Adult. Similar to C bracJii/dacti/la, but greyer, like C. acuti- 

 rost7^is, and having a long thin bill like that species. It has, how- 

 ever, the tail of Alaudula pispoletta, the outer tail-feather being 

 almost entirely white, excepting an oblique blackish mark on the 

 inner web ; the white pattern is characterized by an absence of 

 bufF. Total length (3 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 3-65, tail 2"3, 

 tarsus 0'75. 



So few of the specimens have the sex marked that it is impossible 

 to make an exact comparison of the length of wings with that of the 

 allied species. In the series of C. thibetana in the Museum the 

 wing varies from 3-95 to 3'3 inches. 



Hah. Throughout the Himalayas from Cashmere to Sikhim and 

 Thibet, becoming more plentiful in its eastern range. 



Thibet, March, May-Sept. (Z. 



Mandelli). 

 Thibet, Sept. (i. Mandelli). 



Thibet (Z. Mandelli). 



Sikhim (Z. Mandelli), 



Sikhim, Oct. (Z. Mandelli). 



Nepal. 



Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). 



Cawnpore ( W. E. Brooks). 



Rohtuk District, Feb. 



Cashmere {G. Henderson). 

 Chashi Yassin, Aug. 

 Indus Valley, June. 



Himae Coll. 



Hume Coll. (Type 



of species.) 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hodgson Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Col Biddulph [C.l. 



Col. Biddulph [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Calandrella acutirostris. 



? Alaudula pispoletta, Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beng. xxxvii. p. 64 (1868). 

 ? Calandrella raytal {nee Frankl.), Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 319. 

 Calandrella acutirostris, Hume, Lahore to Yark. p. 265 (1873). 

 ? Calandrella brachydactyla, /3. tenuirostris, Sevei'tz. Turkest. Jewtn. 

 p. 67 (1873). 



