AND TYPES OF EGGS, 30 
birds, found in this country chiefly in the cold weather. Two species 
(Emberiza striolata and Melophus melanicterus) are permanent residents and 
breed in the plains. Two or three kinds of buntings breed in the Himalayas, 
but all the rest go further north or west to breed. They frequent open 
ground or rocks with scanty jungle. The corn buntings (Zuspiza) are 
generally found in cultivated ground. They all nestle on or close to 
the ground, under shelter, and the eggs are spotted and often scrawled 
with fine hair-like lines. 
Finches, (Hesperiphona, Mycerobas, Pyrrhula, Pyrrhoplectes, 
Loxia, Hematospiza, Propyrrhula, Carpodacus, Propasser, Procarduelis, 
Pyrrhospiza, Callacanthis, Carduelis, Chrysomitris, Metoponia, Fringilla, 
Montifringilla, Fringillauda).—A few finches wander to the foot of 
the hills in the winter, but the common rose finch (Carpodacus 
erythrinus) is the only one feund in the plains of India. All the others 
occur in the Himalayas only, chiefly at high elevations. They are all 
more or less migratory. Of arboreal habits, frequenting forests and wooded 
tracts, and of their breeding, very little is known. All the eggs of this 
group that are known are prettily, some very handsomely, marked. 
Bush larks, (Mirafra).—Are spread throughout the plains of 
India. They frequent open forests, grass jungle, and edges of cultivation, 
are not migratory, build on the ground in short grass, and lay pro- 
fusely spotted eggs. 
Finch larks, (Ammomanes, Pyrrhalauda).—Are also perma- 
nent residents of the plains of India frequenting drier and more open 
ground and avoiding cultivation. They are widely distributed. Their eggs 
are profusely speckled. 
Larks, ( Calandrella, Melanocorypha, Alaudala, Otocoris, Spiz- 
alauda, Alauda, Galerita, Certhilauda).—Are more or less migratory, asso- 
ciating in flocks in the cold weather, but many species breed in India. 
The short-toed larks (Calandrella), the calandra Jarks (Melanocorypha), 
the horned larks ( Otocoris) , and probably also the desert larks (Certhilauda) 
are merely cold weather visitants, and do not breed at all within our limits. 
The Himalayan sky lark (A. dudcwor) breeds only in the Himalayas, 
while the others breed in suitable localities throughout the country. The 
sky larks (Alauda) affect damp grassy spots. The sand larks (Alaudala) 
frequent the sandy beds of large rivers. All the others are found in dry, 
open, or cultivated plains, They all build on the ground and lay spotted 
eggs. 
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