80 Mr. Hugh Wliistler on the 



Ammomanes plKsnicuroides. The Desert Finch-Lark. 



AVing. Bill from base. 



673. 10.4.1913. Dumniau. S- 101 14 mm. 



962. 19.12.1913. Parhi. ? . 99 12-5 mm. 



1330. 3.3.1914. Dumman. ? . 96 12'5 mm. 



Resident and common, but confined to the nullahs and 

 rocky ground of the Salt Range and the Cliakwal Plateau. 



[Iris and tarsi pale brown ; feet darker, claws blackish ; 

 bill brown, base of lower mandible yellow. All are in worn 

 plumage.— C. B. T.] 



Pyrrhulauda grisea. The Ashy-crowned Finch -Lark. 



851. 10.9.1913. Sardi. $. ' Wing 75 mm. 



880. „ „ Juv. Nestling. 



The nestling with parent bird was obtained from a 

 nest at Sardi, in the Salt Range, where the species was 

 common. The nest was of neat construction, slight and cup- 

 shaped, on the open ground by a tuft of grass and small 

 stones; there were also a few about Lilla (on the plain 

 exactly below Sardi) at that date. I did not again visit that 

 neighbourhood, and only met with the species elsewhere at 

 Jhelum, where, at the end of March and beginning of April, 

 a couple of flights and a pair were noted on migration. 



[^Adult. Iris brown ; feet pinkish brown ; bill pale 

 bluish grey. The nestling shows the usual dark pattern of 

 juvenile plumage, having brown feathers on the upper parts 

 with creamy-buff bases and tips; the M'ing-feathers are 

 edged and tipped with warmer buff; underparts creamy 

 buff ; what little nestling-down remains is buffish white. — 

 C. B. T.] 



Pyrrhulauda melanauchen. Black-crowned Finch-Lark. 



Captain Whitehead met with this species in fair numbers 

 in December in the fields some four miles north of Lilla, 

 and obtained a male for verification. This was some 300 

 miles north-west of the previously recorded range of the 

 species (though I have since obtained the species and found 

 it in small numbers at Chautala, Hissar district). The exact 

 status of these two small Larks in the Punjab requires 

 working out. 



