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Eggs of the Pale Short-billed Crested Lark are similar to those 
of G. harterti. They measure respectively : *90 by “64 ; *85 by °66 ; 
81 by °68. 
1. El Aghouat, Central Algeria, May Crowley Bequest. 
(Dr. Reboud: Tristram Coll.). 
2. El Aghouat (Loche: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
Galerida malabarica (Scop.). 
(Plate VIII. figs. 15 & 16.) 
Galerita malabarica, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M, xiii. p. €33 (1890) ; Oates, 
Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 338 (1890) ; ad., ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs 
Ind. Birds, ii. p. 257 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Kersammil. p. 154 (1899). 
Galerida malabarica, Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 182 (1906). 
The eggs of the Malabar Crested Lark closely resemble those of 
Spizalauda deva, They measure from -71 to ‘9 in length, and from 
57 to °62 in breadth. 
2. Ratnagiri, West Coast of India, Hume Coll. 
5th Oct. (G. Vidal). 
1. Ratnagiri, 23rd Oct. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 
2. Ratnagiri, 27th Oct. (G. V.}. Hume Coll. 
1. Ratnagiri, 3rd Nov. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 
2. Ratnagiri, 10th Nov. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 
4, Ratnagiri, 23rd Nov. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 
3. Nilghiri Hills, 8th April (Wiss Hume Coll. 
Cockburn). 
2. Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 8th May Hume Coll. 
(Miss Cockburn). 
Genus LULLULA, Kaup. 
Lullula arborea (Linn.). 
Alauda nemorosa, Thien. Kortpflanz. ges. Vig. tab. xxvi. fig. 4, a-d 
(1845-54). ; 
Alauda arborea, Buedeker, Kier Eur. Vog. tab. 66. fig. 5 (1855-63) ; Hewit- 
son, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 179, pl. xlv. fig. iii (1856) ; Dresser, 
Birds Eur. iv. p. 321 (1878) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 256, pl. 15 
(1884) ; W hitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 40 ; Scebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 
p. 255, pl. 58. tig. 8 (1896); Rey, Kier Vig. Mittelewop. p. 258, 
pl. 86. figs. 13-17 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 389 
(1902). 
Lullula arborea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 636 (1890); Hartert, 
Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 241 (1905); Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 182 
(1906). 
The eggs of the Wood-Lark are mostly of a broad pointed oval 
shape and moderately glossy. They are white or greyish-white, 
thickly speckled and mottled with dull reddish-brown or olive- 
brown, and underlying lavender or grey. The markings on the 
eggs of this Lark are almost invariably fine and speckly, and they 
