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surface have, in the worn summer plumage, very much larger and 

 more conspicuous dark shaft-streaks. The pale parts of the bead 

 are at ail seasons white, never yellow. 



The colours of the soft parts of this Lark do not appear to have 

 been recorded. 



Length about 8-5 ; tail 3-7 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from gape 

 •8 ; bill at front -55 to -0. 



Fig. 91. — Head of 0. longirostris. 



Distribution. The higher parts of the Himalayas from Kashmir 

 and Ladak down to Kumaun, extending into the adjoining parts of 

 Tibet. This species appears to be found only at very high altitudes. 



857. Otocorys elwesi. Elwes's Homed Lark. 



Otocorys penicillata (Gould), Horsf. $ M. Cat, ii, p. 469; Jerd. B. 



I. ii, p. 429 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 422 ; id, Cat. no. 763. 

 Otocorys elwesi, Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 62 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 



M. xiii, p. 534 ; Gates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 220. 

 Otocorys longirostris, Gould, apud Hume & Menders. Lah. to Yark. 



p. 267. 



The Horned Lark, Jerd. 



Coloration. Of the same coloration as 0. longirostris. The 

 present species differs in its much smaller size ; its conspicuously 

 smaller bill ; in the large amount and intensity of the vinous or 

 pink tinge, which suffuses the whole of the upper plumage and 

 wings ; and in the small extent and paler tone of the streaks on the 

 back and rump. 



The nestlings of this and other species of Otocorys have the whole 

 upper plumage fulvous, each feather with a subterminal black bar 

 and a white tip; the wing-feathers are all broadly margined with 

 fulvous ; lower plumage pale yellowish white, spotted with brown 

 on the throat, fore neck, and breast. The adult plumage is assumed 

 at the first autumn moult. 



Bill black above, pale near the base below ; legs black ; soles of 

 feet yellowish (Blanford), 



Length less than 8 ; tail 3-4 : wing 4'3 to 4*8 ; tarsus -9 ; bill 

 from gape - 7. 



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