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outer webs only ; lores, sides of the face, and ear coverts mixed dusky and 

 rufescent, whitish below the ear coverts ; superciliary streak pale rufous ; chin 

 and throat white ; breast rufescent with a few dark brown spots ; rest of 

 under surface of body pale rufescent. Bill dusky, fleshy beneath ; legs fleshy 

 brown ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5*5 to 5'8 inches ; wing 27 to 2-9; tail 2; culmen 0-48. 



Hah, Southern India generally, also N.-W. India, the Central Provinces, 

 Bengal, and the Punjab. It is recorded from the Carnatic, the Northern 

 Circars and Mysore, also Gorgaon, Lahore, Hansie, Cawnpore and Jhansi. 

 Jerdon says it is generally spread throughout India, frequenting meadows and 

 grass land near cultivation, and rising high in the air singing the while its 

 sweet and pleasant song. Breeds from March to August, making a nest, not 

 unlike those of the foregoing species. Eggs 34, of the same type of marking 

 as the other Mir of r as, varying in length from 072 to 0-9, and in breadth from 

 0-58 to O'65. 



Gen. Ammomanes. Cab. 



Bill as in the last, but longer and more compressed; 1st quill minute; 2nd 

 shorter than the third, which, and the fourth, are equal and longest ; tertiaries 

 shorter than the secondaries ; tail long ; hind claw long and curved. Nostrils 

 covered with a tuft of incumbent feathers ; plumage uniform, with scarcely 

 any dark striations. 



894. Ammomanes lusitania, Gm., Syst. Nat. \\. p. 798 ; Hume, 



Sir. F. i. p. 2il ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., #vr., Sind, p. 185 ; Gray, Handlist 

 Birds, No. 7808 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 192. Ammomanes lusitanica, 

 (Gm.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 422, No. 759 ; Tern., P. C. 244, 2. Ammomanes 

 deserti (Licht.), Blf., East. Pers. p. 245. Ammomanes isabellinl, Tern., Col. 

 PL 244, f. 2 ; Gould, Birds Eur. pi. 163. The PALE RUFOUS FINCH-LARK. 



Top of head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts earthy 

 greyish brown, slightly tinged with rufescent on the rump ; feathers round 

 the eye, as well as a line from the nostrils to the eye, and at the gape, fulvous 

 white ; a faint streak in front of the eye in the middle of the white line ; 

 cheeks and ear coverts like the back ; chin, throat and breast fulvous or 

 greyish white, with a few dusky streaks on the breast ; rest of lower surface 

 rufescent brown ; wing coverts like the back, with paler edges and dark shaft 

 streaks ; primaries and secondaries dusky, margined on the outer and inner 

 webs with pale rufous, the tips fulvous white ; tail brown ; the outer web of the 

 outermost, and its basal half, pale rufous, the others narrowly margined and 

 tipped paler ; bill dusky ; base of lower mandible yellowish ; legs pale brown. 



Length. 6 to 6-25 inches ; wing 4 ; tail 275 ; bii? at front 0*56. 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N,-W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Arabia, Southern 

 Persia, Afghanistan, Cashmere, Southern and Eastern Europe and N.-E. Africa. 

 Extremely common in Sind on the bare stony hills and plains. Breeds, 

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