280 ALAUDIN~, - 
with conspicuous white tips to all the feathers except the two- 
central ones; all the rectrices edged more or less broadly with 
fulvous ; lores and a distinct eyebrow whitish; cheeks fulvous- 
white with a slight mottling with rufous ; ear-coverts entirely 
rufous ; throat, breast, and flanks, rufous; a black pectoral gor- 
get extending right across the lower part of the throat; on the 
upper part of the breast are a few indistinct mottled lines below 
the black gorget ; under tail-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts 
entirely greyish-brown, 
“ Obs.—Some specimens are much greyer than others; others 
again are more rufous; some are more white on the belly, and 
have the breast much obscured, so that the pectoral gorget is 
scarcely discernible. This last dress seems to be the winter 
plumage, 
“ Young.—Similar to the adult, but more rufous in the centre ; 
gorget, more obscure, and the stripes on the upper breast more 
indistinct.”— Sharpe and Dresser, Birds of Ewrope. 
This fine Lark occurs in Upper Sind, and in the desert east 
of Oomercot. 
Genus, Alaudula, Blyth. 
- Bill more lengthened and slender than in the preceding 
genera, but still rather short and thick, and slightly curved ; 
wings moderate, with no rudimentary first primary, and the 
first three quills longest; tail even; feet very small; hind-claw 
about the length of the toe, nearly straight, of small size. 
Alaudula raytal, Blyth. 
762.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IL, p. 428; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 180. 
THE INDIAN SAND LaRK. 
Retal, Hin. 
Length, 5:25; expanse, 8; wing, 3; tail, 1°75 to 2; tarsus, 0°7; 
bill at front, 0°38. 
Bill pale horny ; irides brown ; legs fleshy-yellowish. 
General hue of the upper parts ight brownish-ashy, with nar- 
row dark centres to the feathers; lower parts white, faintly 
tinged with fulvous on the breast, where obscurely marked with 
small spots; wing-coverts and tertiaries margined with pale- 
rufescent or whitish ; the outermost feathers white, except the 
inner half of the inner web, and_ the next one is white along 
the marginal half of its outer web only ; a whitish line through 
the eyes. 
The Indian Sand Lark is not uncommon in the neighbourhood 
of Neemuch, Rajputana, in the cold weather. 
Alaudula adamsi, Hume. 
762ter.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 196. 
