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of the eye ; the lower parts white, with, in some, a very faint rufescent tinge 

 on breast, sides, and flanks, and with numerous narrow or linear darkish brown 

 spots on the breast, very strongly marked, conspicuous in some specimens, 

 reduced almost to speckles in other birds ; flanks and sides are faintly tinged 

 with brown, or in some pale rufescent ; the irides are pale brown ; the bill 

 pale greyish or slaty grey, brownish on culmen and the tip, slightly yellowish 

 white at base of lower mandible ; legs and feet fleshy brown, or in some 

 brownish yellow, dusky on joints. 



' Male, Length. 5-9 to 6-0 inches ; expanse 10-4 to iro ; tail from vent 

 2'i to 2-2; wing 3-3 to 3-5 ; bill at front 0-35 to 0-38 ; tarsus 075 to O'S ; wings, 

 when closed, reach to within 0*7 to O'S of end of tail ; weight 0*75 oz. 



"Female, Length. 5-6 to 57 inches; expanse IO to lo'S ; tail from vent2; 

 wing 3-05 to 3-2 ; bill at front 0-32 to 0-38 ; tarsus 075 to 078 ; wings, when 

 closed, reach to within o f 6 to 07 of end of tail ; weight 0*6 to 07 oz." 



Eab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, extending to the Hima- 

 layas. Resident in Sind, but nothing is known of its nidification, except 

 that Captain Cock, writing to Mr. Hume, mentions having obtained the eggs 

 on the banks of the Jhelum during April and May. The eggs are said to be 

 more glossy than those of A. rqytal, the ground colour purer white, and less 

 densely spotted and speckled. 



Gen. OtOCOrys. Bonap. 



Bill moderately short, slender, somewhat conical : culmen arched ; wing 

 moderately long, not reaching to the tip of the tail ; ist three primaries equal 

 and longest. No minute primary. Claws long and straight or nearly so. 

 Head with a double erectile sincipital crest. 



902. Otocorys penicillata (Gould), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 429, 



No. 763; Str.F. pp. 36, 417; ii. p. 529; vii. p. 422. Otocorys scriba 

 (Bonap), Gray, Gen. B. pi. 92. Otocorys longirostris, Moore, P. Z. S. 1855, 

 fig. ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 431, No. 764 ; Str. F. ii. p. 529 ; vii. p. 422. The 

 HORNED LARK. 



Head, neck and back streakless vinaceous ashy, passing to purer grey on the 

 wings ; narrow frontal band, lores, ear coverts, and the sides of the neck 

 meeting as a gorget across the breast purple black ; the crown and the pointed 

 sincipital tuft also black ; forehead, supercilia continued round the ear 

 coverts posteriorly, throat and below the breast white, the latter tinged with 

 yellow ; primaries fuscous ashy, the first white externally ; tail blackish, 

 except the medial feathers, which are vinaceous ashy, and the outermost and 

 penultimate which have white margins. Bill and feet black. 



Length. -8 inches ; wing 4-5 ; tail 3 ; culmen 0-4 ; tarsus I. 

 Hab. The Himalayas, Nepaul, Kumaon, also Cashmere, 



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