282 ALAUDIN&. 
THE SMALL Crown Crest LARK. 
Length, 55 to 5°75; wing, 34; tail, 2; bill at front, 0°5 ; 
tarsus, 0°75. 
Bill horny-brown,. yellowish beneath; irides dark-brown; feet 
fleshy-brown. 
Upper part, including the crest, isabelline or rufous-brown, 
with black mesial streaks; upper tail-coverts rufescent without 
streaks; the first long primary broadly edged with rufescent, 
and. the outermost tail-feathers and most of the penultimate of 
the same hue, with a few dusky strie on the breast, and paling 
on the throat. 
The Small Crown Crest Lark is a common permanent resident 
in the Deccan, and is also common at Mhow and Neemuch, 
Central India. 
It breeds from July to September, making a small cup-shaped 
nest on the ground, in a slight depression, under a tuft of grass. 
The eggs, two or three in number, are moderately broad ovals 
in shape, of a dull white color, profusely spotted, speckled, and 
blotched with dull yellowish-brown and dingy inky-purple: 
They measure 0°87 inches in length and about 0°65-in breadth. 
Spizalauda malabarica, Scop. 
765bis.—Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 1; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 418; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 
THE LARGE Crown Crest LARK. 
Differs from deva in being darker in plumage, more rufous 
above, and whiter beneath, and has larger and more numerous 
breast spots. 
This Lark is not uncommon in parts of the Deccan and Nor- 
thern Guzerat. 
Genus, Alauda, Lin. 
Bill moderate, nearly straight, conical or subulate, slender ; 
wings long, the first primary exceedingly minute, and the next 
four sub-equal, the fifth in some decidedly shorter; tips of the 
lesser quills emarginated; tail short or moderate, forked ; tarsus 
somewhat lengthened ; feet large; hind-claw very long; coronal 
feathers elongated and forming a full crest. 
Alauda gulgula, Franklin, 
767.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 434; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 2; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 419; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 197 ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 130. 
THE INDIAN SKY LARK. 
Length, 6 to6°5 ; wing, 3°25 to 3°75 ; tail, 2 to 2:25 ; tarsus, 1 ; 
bill at front, 0°5. 
