17. olvlerita. 629 



Alauda (Galerita) cristata, ^foy;/. Geul.S,- Zool. Alyss. p. 387 (1870). 

 Mirafra areiiijola, Graif, Iland-I. B. ii. p. Vl'l, no. 7814 (1870). 

 Galerida magna, Hunie, Ibis, 1871, p. 407 ; Hume i^'- Hemlers. 



Lahore to Yark. p. i'70, pi. oO (187a ) ; Severtz. Sir. F. iii. p. 4i'4 



(1875) ; Scul/i/, Str. F. iv. p. 175 (1876) ; Menzbiev, Ibis, 1885, 



p. 3-54. 

 Galerita microcristata, Homeyer, J. f. O. 1873, p. 202. 

 Galerita parvicristata (yiom. emend.), SJiarpe, Zool. liec. 1873, p. 64. 

 Alauda magna (nee Hume), Di.von, Ibis, 1882, p. 571. 

 Alauda cristata, var. macroihyncba, <SVeio/»H, if »s^. i?/7<. i? n p ^Q2 



(1884). _ 

 Alauda cristata, var. magna, Seebohvi, t. c. p. 262 (1884). 

 Alauda isabeUina (nee Bp.), Tristr. Faun. ^- Flor. Palest p 78 



(1884). _ 

 Alauda cristata, var. leautungensis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p ■''02 



(1884). 

 Galerita cristata caucasica, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 00-3, 1888, p. 404. 

 Galerita cristata coreensis, Taez. Bull. 8oc. Zool. France, 1887, 



p. 620. 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above brown, with 

 blackish centres to the feathers, the back not so strongly mottled as 

 in the gencralitj- of Larks : lower back and rump rather more 

 nnifoim and more ashy than the back ; the lower rump and upper 

 tail-coverts rather more vinaccons ; wing-coverts like the back, the 

 median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with ashy brown ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, externally washed 

 with pale rufous, the innermost secondaries with ashy ; tail-feathers 

 brown with ashy margins, the penultimate feather sandy buif along 

 the outer web ; the outer feather pale brown, externally sandy buft', 

 and obliquely darker brown on the inner web ; crown of head like 

 the back, slightly tinged with vinaceous, and streaked with darker 

 brown ; a long median crest of narrow plumes ; lores, an indistinct 

 eyebrow, and feathers round the eye bufiy white ; sides efface and 

 ear-coverts brown, the latter shaded with darker brown, with a 

 whitish patch just below the eye ; cheeks and throat whitish, with 

 some blackish spots on the former ; sides of neck pale brown ; re- 

 mainder of under surface of body isabelline whitish, browner on the 

 fore neck and breast, the chest thickly spotted with black, taking 

 more the form of streaks on the sides of the breast, as well as on 

 the sides of the body and flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 isabelline, the latter with dusky centres ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries clear vinous isabelline ; quills below dusky, rufescent 

 along the inner edge : " bill greyish brown, the lower mandible 

 lighter and more dusky; feet dusky yellowish flesh- coloiu' ; iris 

 light brown " [J. 0. Xainivinn). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-7, 

 wing 4-25, tail 2-7, tarsus 0*9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller. Total length 6'5 

 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3'8, tail 2-4, tarsus 0"9o. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



