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Upper parts streaked, the centres of the feathers being dusky- 
brown, and the edges fulvous-brown, rufescent on the head ; 
coronal feathers lengthened; a whitish eye-streak ; ear-feathers 
rufescent-brown ; beneath, the throat is pure white, and the rest 
of the plumage pale fulvescent-whitish; the breast marked with 
large oval blackish spots; primaries and secondaries ferruginous 
on both webs, except towards the tip, the dusky portion gradually 
increasing to the outermost feathers ; tail blackish, the four middle 
feathers brown, and the outermost only whitish on its outer 
web. 
The Red-winged Bush Lark is a common permanent resident 
in all parts of the Presidency; it is, however, somewhat locally 
distributed. 
It breeds during March and April and again in August and 
September; the nest, generally domed, is composed of grass 
stems. The eggs, usually three in number, (occasionally four), are 
oval in shape, and greenish, brownish or yellowish-white in color, 
profusely spotted with brownish-red, inky-purple or olive-brown. 
They average 0°76 inches in length by 0°59 in breadth. 
Mirafra cantillans, Jerd. 
757.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 420; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 499 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 
THE SINGING BusH LARK. 
Length, 5°5-; expanse, 10; wing, 2°9 ; tail, 2; bill at front, 0°5. 
Bill dusky-horny, fleshy beneath ; irides dark-brown ; legs fleshy- 
rown. 
Above dusky-brown, the feathers laterally margined with rufes- 
cent-brown; wings and their coverts strongly margined with 
rufescent-brown; a pale eye-streak ; throat and below the ear- 
coverts white, and the rest of the under parts pale rufescent, 
darker on the breast, with a few indistinct small breast spots ; 
outer tail-feathers nearly all white, the penultimate white on the 
outer web only. 
The Singing Bush Lark occurs in Guzerat, near Mhow, in 
Central India, and in the vicinity of Neemuch, Rajputana, but 
is very locally distributed. 
It is a permanent resident, breeding from March to July; the 
nest, a domed one, is generally placed on the ground in a tuft 
of coarse grass. | 
The eggs, three or four in number, are scarcely distinguishable 
from those of M. erythroptera. 
Genus, Ammomanes, Cabanis, 
Bill short, thick, compressed, arched at culmen, acute at the 
tip, which is slightly bent over; gonys ascending ; wings long, 
straight, first quill minute, second not so long as the third and 
