360 ALAUDID^E. 



wing coverts brown, edged with greyish ; primaries and secondaries brown, 

 with rufous or fulvous margins on their outer webs ; tail dark brown, outer- 

 most feather on each side fulvescent white, except a faint dusky margin on the 

 inner margin of the inner web, the next with the outer web only fulvescent ; 

 chin, throat, breast and rest of under surface fulvescent white, deeper on the 

 breast and streaked with dusky: bill horny brown, pale beneath ; legs fleshy 

 brown ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 6 to 6-5 inches ; wing 3-25 to 375 ; tail 2-25 ; bill at front 0-37 

 to 0-5. 



Hab Throughout India to Cashmere and Nepaul ; Sind, Kutch, Raj- 

 putana, N. Guzerat, Concan, Deccan, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, 

 N.-W. Provinces and Cashmere. It is said by Blyth to occur in Arracan. Gates 

 found it abundant in Southern Pegu, and according to Dr. Armstrong it is 

 said to be spread over the whole Irrawady delta. Davison observed it in the 

 plains between the Sittangand Salween rivers and in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Moulmein. It ranges throughout India, also the Indo-Burmese 

 countries, and Ceylon. Frequents cultivated lands. Breeds during December: 

 The nest is not unlike that of other larks, and is made in depressions in the 

 ground under the shelter of a stone or tuft of grass. Eggs 34, white, or 

 greyish-white mottled with brown. Eggs have been taken in the Nilgherries, 

 in the Central Provinces, Central India, Punjab, and N.-W. Provinces. 



Gen. Galerida. Boie. 



Bill lengthened, curved slightly ; wings with the first primary partially 

 developed, next four sub-equal ; head crested. 



905. Galerida cristata (Zz>/.), Gould, B. Eur. pi. 165; p. E. 



503, i. Naum. vogt. t. 99, i. ; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 437, No. 769 ; Blf., East. 

 Pers. ii. p. 240 ; Hume, Str. F. i. 214 ; vii. p. 185 ; Murray, Hdbk., Zool. 

 fyc. Sind, p. 19 1. The LARGE CRESTED LARK. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts pale sandy or pale 

 rufous brown ; the feathers of the crest, and in some specimens, of the fore- 

 head also, with a mesial dark brown streak ; the back and scapulars with dark- 

 shaft stripes ; a pale fulvous streak from the nostrils to above the eye as a 

 supercilium ; lores pale fulvous or fulvous white, with, in some specimens, 

 a faint dusky streak in the centre, in front of the eye ; feathers below the eye 

 whitish, followed by curved dusky line, then white, and followed by a dusky 

 streak at the base of the lower mandible on each side ; chin, throat, sides of 

 the neck and breast white ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail coverts sullied 

 white ; breast with longitudinal streaks or oval spots ; ear coverts pale brown ; 

 \vings pale brown ; the wing coverts edged and tipped pale rufous, also the 

 primaries, secondaries and tertiaries, and all with a broad rufous or pale 

 salmon margin on their inner web, the under wing coverts and wing lining 

 being of this hue ; tail dusky or dark brown, the centre feathers broadly 



