674 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus ALAUDA Linneus, 1758. 
Bill similar to that of Anthuggbut stouter and blunter; nostrils pro- 
tected by short feathers and sev@ral hairs; rictal bristles few and short; 
first primary shorter than primary-coverts; second primary nearly as 
long as third, which is equal to fourth; tertials slightly longer than 
secondaries; claw of hallux slender, nearly straight, and equal to more 
than two-thirds the length of tarsus. 
689. ALAUDA WATTERSI Swinhoe. 
FORMOSAN SKYLARE, 
Alauda watiersi SwWINHOE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1871), 389; MoGrercor and 
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 103. 
Alauda gulgula SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 13, 575 (part); 
Grant and WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 244 (eggs); WHITEHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 243 (mest). 
Bohol (Hverett, McGregor); Luzon (Méllendorff, Whitehead, McGregor, 
Bartsch); Sibuyan (McGregor); Ticao (McGregor). Formosa and the Pesca- 
dores. 
Adult.—Upper parts blackish brown, streaked with ochraceous-buff ; 
lores and superciliary stripe from bill to nape pale buff or whitish ; ear- 
coverts dusky; malar region and sides of throat marked with small 
blackish spots; under parts white; chest buff with short blackish shaft- 
lines ; sides and flanks buff, the latter obscurely streaked with dark brown: 
wing-feathers and rectrices dark brown, edged with cream-buff or ruddy 
buff; outermost pair of rectrices entirely white; the next pair with their 
outer webs white. 
In freshly molted individuals the feathers of upper parts are rounded 
at the ends and fringed with white, producing a squamate appearance, 
which disappears as the plumage becomes worn; feathers of occiput 
somewhat lengthened forming a crest, and the feathers of sides of nape 
forming short ear-tufts. 
A male in fresh plumage measures: Length, ty wing, 85; tail, 54; 
culmen from base, 15; depth of bill at nostril, 5; - tarsus, 235 hind toe 
with claw, 24. A female in worn plumage measures: Wink: 81; tail, 
48; culmen from base, 13; depth of bill at nostril, 5; tarsus, 23; hind 
toe with claw, 22. 
This species is very similar to the European skylark from which it is 
distinguished by its much smaller size. 
Three eggs of the Formosan skylark from Isabela Province, Luzon, 
collected by Whitehead on May 25, 1894, are thus described: 
“Shape ovate. Ground-color very pale greenish white, variously 
mottled and spotted with pale french-gray under-markings and brown 
upper-markings. In one egg the markings are chiefly concentrated 
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