220 ALAUDID2E SPIZOCORYS 



The genus contains a single species which is resident in South 

 Africa. 



125. Spizocorys conirostris. Pink-billed Lark. 



Alauda conirostris, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vct.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 99 ; Gurney in Andersson's B. Damara Land, p. 192 (1872) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 103, pi. iii, fig. 2 ; 1877, p. 345 ; 1878, p. 410 ; 



1880, p. 104. 

 Spizocorys conirostris, Sundev. Tent. p. 55 (1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1874, p. 631 ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 508 (1884) ; id. Cat. 



B. M. xiii, p. 564 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 14 (1896). 



Spizocorys conirostris. 



Description. Adult male. Above, brown streaked with black, 

 the feathers of the back of neck, rump and upper tail-coverts edged 

 with grey; wing-coverts brown edged with buff; quills lighter 

 brown margined with buff; tail-feathers blackish tipped with white, 

 the two outer with buff ; crown like the back ; eyebrow and streak 

 below eye white ; ear-coverts brown ; cheeks white spotted with 

 black ; throat white ; rest of under surface pale rufous, the chest 

 with triangular spots of dusky ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 buff. 



Iris hazel ; bill horn-colour ; legs and feet flesh-colour. 



Length, in flesh 5'60 ; of skin 4-80 ; wing 3*05 ; tail 1-80 ; tarsus 

 0-75; culmenO-50. 



Adult female. Like the male in colour but slightly smaller. 



Young. Above, dark brown, most of the feathers with white 



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