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those immediately impending the secondary quills 

 have whitish tips, making a small bar across the 

 wing ; one row also of the smaller coverts is 

 tipped with white, making another line of that 

 colour across the superior part of the wing: the 

 two middle feathers of the tail are dusky, deeply 

 margined with rufous brown ; the outer feather 

 is white, the next is white on the exterior web, 

 and part of the inner web towards the tip : the 

 shaft dusky ; the rest are dusky : legs yellowish 

 brown : hind claws as long as the toe, and some- 

 what curved." 



RUFOUS LARK. 

 (Alauda rufa.) 



AL. nigricans rufo nebulosa, corpore subtus gulaque albis, rec- 



tricibus duabus extimis albo marginatis. 

 Dusky Lark, clouded with rufous, with the body beneath and 



the throat white, the two outer tail-feathers edged with white. 

 Alauda rufa. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 798. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 4()S. 



22. 



Variole. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 63. 

 Petite alouette de Buenos Ay res. Buff. PL Enl. ?38.f. 1. 

 Rufous Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 388. 20. 



THE Rufous Lark is five inches and upwards 

 in length: its beak and legs are brownish: the 

 crown of the head and upper parts of the plumage 

 dusky, varied with rufous: the greater quills grey, 

 the lesser brown, all bordered with rufous : th.e 



