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equal; tertiaries elongated; feet small, with shortish toes, and 
moderately short, but straight hind-claw. 
Calandrella brachydactyla, Leis!. 
761.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 426; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 500; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 418; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 198; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 
THE SocraL LARK. 
Length, 6:25 ; wing, 4; tail, 2°25 ; tarsus, 0°8. 
Bill whitish-horny, dusky on culmen ; irides dark-brown ; legs 
brownish. 
Upper parts pale rufescent-sandy, streaked with dusky, a 
stripe over the eye, and the whole under parts fulvous-white, 
tinged with earthy-brown on the breast, which is spotless in 
some, in a few slightly spotted; wings dusky-brown, with ful- 
vous edgings, broader and deeper colored on the tertiaries, and 
on the tips of the coverts, and with a whitish edge to the first 
developed primary ; tail dusky, the penultimate feather having 
the outer web wholly white to near the base, and also some of 
the. inner web. In old or worn plumage the dusky tinge pre- 
vails on the back; the breast has some narrow dusky streaks, 
and a patch of the same appears on each side of the lower part 
of the foreneck ; this is also slightly observable in newly-moulted 
specimens. 
The Social Lark is excessively common during the cold 
weather, in every portion of the region. 
Genus, Melanocorypha, Boie. 
Bill thick and convex; tertiaries not elongated; hind-claw 
moderate, straight. 
Melanocorypha bimaculata, Menet. 
761ter.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 195. 
Length, 7 to 8; expanse, 13 to 15°25; wing, 4-2 to 48; tail, 
212 to 24; tarsus,1; bill at front, 06 to 07; bill at gape, 
Q°7 to 0-9. 
Bill horny-brown, beneath yellowish; irides brown; legs yel- 
lowish-fleshy. 
“Adult male in summer plumage. Above fulvous-brown, the 
centres of the plumes much darker-brown, giving a somewhat 
mottled appearance, all the feathers being edged with fulvous, 
especially on the hinder part of the neck and the centre of the 
back; wing-coverts colored like the back, but a little more 
rufous, plainly edged with fulvous, less distinct on the greater- 
coverts; quills brown with a slight shade of ash-grey on the 
outer webs; all the feathers more or less narrowly-edged with 
fulvous, but none of the feathers tipped white ; tail dark-brown, 
