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MONGOLIAN LARK. 

 (Alauda Mongolica.) 



AL. capite colloque ferrugineis, vitta annulari verticis marginal* 



maculaque media albis, gula macula nigra bifida. 

 Lark with the head and neck ferruginous, with an annular stripe 



on the edge of the crown, and a spot in the middle white ; 



throat with a bifid black spot. 

 Alauda Mongolica. Pall. It. 3. 697. 19. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 



799. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 497. 18. 

 Mongolian Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 384. 16. 



THE Mongolian Lark is much superior in size 

 to the Calandre, and has a finer note : it inhabits 

 the salt meadows, on the Chinese frontiers, be- 

 tween the rivers Argun and Onon : its beak is 

 stout as in the Black Lark : the head and neck 

 are rust-coloured, with the crown of the former 

 deepest in colour, encircled with white, and orna- 

 mented with a distinct white spot in the middle : 

 the throat is ornamented with a large divaricating 

 patch of black. 



RUFOUS-BACKED LARK. 

 (Alauda fulva.) 



AL.Jusco-nigricans, cervice dorso scapularibusque rufo aurantiis, 



alts caudaque obscuris. 

 Brown-black Lark, with the neck, back, and scapulars, reddish 



orange ; the wings and tail obscure. 



