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Gen. Spizalauda. 



Bill as in Alauda, with the nostrils protected by bristles, but thicker and 

 Mirafra-like in its form ; wings long; 1st quill minute; the next four about 

 equal and longest as in the true Larks ; tertiaries lengthened ; hind toe and 

 claw moderately developed but the claws longer than in Mirafra, Coronal 

 feathers lengthened and forming a pointed crest, (/erd.) 



903, Spisalauda deva (Sykei), Jerd., B, Ind. ii. p, 433> No. 765 ; 

 Sir. I 1 , iv. p. 237. Alauda deva, Sykes, Cal. 98. Mirafra Hayi, Jerd,, 2nd 

 SuppL Cat. 1 88, bis; id,, J. A. S. B, xiii. p. 959. Spizalauda malabarica 

 (Scop.\ Hume, Nests and Egg Ltd. B. p. 483. The SMALL CRESTED LARK. 



Upper plumage, including the crest, isabeHine or rufous brown, with black 

 mesial streaks ; the upper tail coverts plain rufcscent ; first primary broadly 

 edged with rufescent, and the outermost tail feather and most of the penulti- 

 mate of the same hue ; superciliary streak continued round the back of the 

 head and lower plumage isabeHine, the breast with a few dusky striae ; the 

 throat paler isabeHine. Bill horny brown, yellowish below ; feet fleshy brown ; 

 irides dark brown. 



Length, 5-5 to 575 inches; wing 3*3-, tail 2 ; culmen 0*7; tarsus 0-7$; 

 hind toe and claw 0-75 ; crest about 075, with a dark brown mesial streak to 

 each feather, 



Hab. Southern India, the Carnatic, Deccan, and Central India, the Central 

 Provinces, Punjab, N.-vV. Provinces, Oudh, and Behar. Recorded from Lahore, 

 Etawah, Jhansi, Saugor, Mysore, and the Neilgherries. Breeds wherever 

 found. Eggs like those of its congeners. 



Gen. Alauda. Linn. 



Bill cylindrical, conical or subulate ; nostrils concealed ; wings very long, 

 no spurious quill; 1st, 2nd and 3rd primaries longest, tips of the lesser quill 

 marginate; tail forked, short or moderate ; head crested. 



904. Alauda glllgula, Frankl, P. Z, S. 1831, p. 119; Jerd., B. 

 Ind. ii. p. 434 ; Hume and Dav., Lahore to Yarkand, p. 269, pi. xxxix. ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs p. 486 ; Blylh, B. Burm. p. 95 ; Armstrong, Sir. F. 

 iv. p. 337 > Oates, Sir. F. v. p. 163 ; Anderson^ Yunnan Evped. p. 605 ; Hume 

 and Dav., Sfr. F. vi. p. 409; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 630; Hume, S/r. F. viii. 

 p. 109; Scully, S/r. F. viii. p. 338 ; Hume, Sir. F. ix. p. 355 ; Oates, S/r. 

 F. x. p. 234. Alauda peguensis, Oates, Sir. F. iii. p. 342. Alauda arvensis 

 (.), David el Oust., Ois. Chine; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 373. The 

 INDIAN SKY LARK. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, and rump dark brown, margined with fulvous 

 crest moderately long ; eye streak pale fulvous ; ear coverts dusky with a few 

 brown spots ; upper tail coverts like the back, tinged slightly with rufous ; 

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