SENEGAL LARK. 525 



Museum : it is six inches in length : the upper 

 parts of its plumage cinereous : the under parts 

 white : the quills and tail dark brown ; the outer 

 feather of the latter white near the tip : legs 

 dusky. 



SENEGAL LARK. 

 (Alauda Senegalensis.) 



AL.fnsco griseoque varia subtus albida, collo inferior e Jitsco ma- 

 culatOy rectricibus duabus extimis extus nifo-ctlbis. 



Lark varied with brown and grey, beneath whitish, with the 

 lower part of the neck spotted with brown, and the two outer 

 tail-feathers with their exterior webs reddish white. 



Alauda Senegalensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 797. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 500. 28. 



Alauda Senegalensis cristata. Briss. Orn. 3. 362. 10. pi. 19. 

 /2. 



Grisette, ou Cocheris du Senegal. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 79. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 504. f. ] . 



Senegal Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 392. 26. 



THE Senegal Lark is six inches and a half in 

 length : its beak is horn-coloured : the feathers 

 on the upper parts of the body are brown in the 

 middle and grey at their edges, giving those parts 

 a variegated appearance : the quills are grey 

 brown, with grey borders on their outer webs, 

 and rufous on their inner: the throat is whitish, 

 spotted with brown j the rest of the under parts 

 plain whitish : the sides of the body are tinged 



