ALAUDULA. 



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Alaudula minor (Cab.). 



C.aluudrella minor, Drcs.icr, Birds J-au: iv. p. 349 (1873) ; id., Man. Pal. 



Birds, pt. i. p. ;i94 (190:^) ; Whitaker, Birds Tunis, i. p. 283 (190r)). 

 Alaudula uiiuor, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 588 (1890j [pt.] ; id., 



Iland-l. V. p. 170 (1900). 

 Calaudrella minor minor, Hartert, Voi/. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 218 (1904). 



Two eggs of the Lesser Shorl-toed Lark are of a wide, pointed 

 oval form. They have the ground-colour pale greenish-white, 

 lilutched with olive-brown and lilac-grey : in one specimen most of 

 llio markings are concentrated towards the larger end so as to form 

 a cap, in the second they form a zone round the middle of the shell. 

 They measure respectively : 'TO by "58 ; 'To by "57. 



2. Algeria, lOth April. Crowley Bequest. 



Alaudula rufescens ( Vieill.). 



Alaudula miuor, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 588 (1890) [pt.]. 

 Callandrella minor rufescens, Hartert, Voff. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 217 



(1904). 

 Alauda rufescens, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 170 (1906). 



Five eggs of the Tenerife Lark are indistinguishable from those 

 of Calaudrella brachydacfi/la, and vary equally in colour and 

 markings. They measure from -7(3 to -83 ia length, and from -oS 

 to -0 in breadth. 



5. Tenerife, Canary Islands. W. Radclitfe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Alaudula polatzeki, Hartert. 



Alaudula minor, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 588 (1890) [pt.]. 

 Calandrella minor polatzeki, Hartert, V'og. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 217 



(1904). 

 Alaudula polatzeki, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 170 (1906). 



Eggs of the Fucrtaventura Lark do not differ from those of 

 A. rufescens. They vary from -71 to -79 in length, and from -55 to 

 •58 iu breadth. 



('). Fuertaventura, Canary Islands. W. Radclifte Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 4. Fuertaventura, March {Percy Crowley Bequest. 



Rendall: Tristram Coll.). 

 3. Fuertaventura, Alarch (P. R. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



