ALAUDA. 127 
An egg of Hodgson’s Sky-Lark is of a wide, somewhat pointed, 
oval form and slightly glossy. The ground-colour is greyish-white, 
thickly speckled with olive-brown and lavender-grey ; the markings 
being most numerous round the broad end, where they form an 
indistinct zone. It measures 85 by ‘66. 
1. Sonamurg, Kashmir, 2nd May Hume Coll. 
(C. &. Cock). 
Alauda pekinensis, Swinh. 
(Plate VII. fig. 10.) 
Alauda arvensis pekinensis, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 248 
(1905). 
Alauda arvensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 166 (1906) [pt.]. 
Two eggs of the Kast Siberian Sky-Lark closely resemble the 
above in shape. The ground-colour is dull grey or greenish-white, 
spotted with umber-brown and lavender-grey, most of the markings 
being concentrated round the larger end, where they form a more 
or less wide confluent zone. They measure respectively ‘88 by -66 
and 94 by °65. 
1. South Amurland, 20th April. Crowley Bequest. 
1. South Amurland, Ist May. Crowley Bequest. 
Alauda gulgula, Frankl. 
(Plate VII. figs. 6 & 7.) 
Alauda gulgula, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B, M. xiii. p. 575 (1890) [pt.]; 
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 826 (1890) [pt.]: td., ed. Hume, 
Nests § Egys Ind. Birds, ii. p. 221 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 
p. 183 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 167 (1906). 
Alauda gulgula gulgula, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 249 (1905). 
Eggs of the Indian Sky-Lark vary in shape from a rounded oval 
to a somewhat wide pointed oval and are more or less glossy. 
The ground-colour varies from white to greenish-white, and even 
to pale buff, and is usually marked all over with either reddish- 
brown, olive-brown or greyish-brown, and with lavender-grey ; in 
some specimens the markings are very fine and dense, in others 
they are less numerous, some taking the form of small blotches, 
while in one example most of the markings are concentrated into a 
heavy olive-brown zone round the larger end. They vary from 
‘75 to *85 in length, and from °56 to ‘64 in breadth, 
One clutch of three eggs from Akola presents an altogether 
different type of coloration, being of a dull greenish-white, densely 
but obscurely mottled all over with greenish-brown and grey ; 
they closely resemble the eggs of Calundrella brachydactyla, 
7. Sind (J. H. Gould). Gould Coll. 
1. Almorah, Himalayas, 11th May Hume Coll. 
(W. £. Brooks). 
