MHLANOCOKYl'UA. '32'S 



two-thirds of both webs white ; wing-coverts and fcertiaries brown, 

 edged with fulvous ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, margined 

 paler and with the outer web of the first primary almost entirely 

 white ; all the quills except the first few primaries broadly tipped 

 with white; ear-coverts rufous ; lores, supercilium, and cheeks 

 white, mottled with rufous ; chin and throat whitish ; breast pale 

 ashy with some ill-defined brown spots, and the sides of the breast 

 with an obsolete dark patch ; remainder of lower plumage white, 

 tinged with fulvous on the flanks. 



In the spring and summer months the plumage is much darker 

 owing to the wearing away of the margins of the feathers. 



The young bird is nearly black above with yellowish or fulvous 

 margins to all the feathers ; the breast is also very dark or blackish 

 with yellowish margins and the remainder of the lower plumage is 

 pale yellow. 



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

 been recorded. 



Length about 9*5 ; tail 3*5; wing 6 ; tarsus 1*1 ; bill from gape 

 1*2 ; hind claw up to "8. 



Distribution. The higher parts of Sikhim, extending into the 

 adjoining parts of Tibet and the mountain region of Western 

 China. 



859. Melanocorypha bimaculata. The Eastern Calandra Lark. 



Alauda bimaculata, Menetr. Cat. Rais. Cauc. p. 37 (f832). 

 Melanocorypha bimaculata {Menetr.), Blanf. S. F. v, p. 246; Hume, 



S. F. vii, p. 421 ; id. Cat. no. 761 ter ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 89 ; 



St ally, Ibis, 1881, p. 580 ; Barnes, Birds Bum. p. 279 ; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 555. 

 Melanocorypha torquata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 476 (1847) ; Hume 



8f Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 265, pi. xxvii; Scully, S. F. iv, p. 173. 



Fig. 92.— Head of M. bimaculata. 



Coloration. The upper pluinage dark brown, each feather laterally 

 margined with fulvous, the character of the upper plumage being 

 streaky ; tail dark brown, margined with fulvous, the inner web of 

 all the feathers, except the middle pair, -with a terminal white spot ; 



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