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LOUISIANE LARK. 

 ( Alauda ludo viciana. ) 



AL.JUSCO nigricans subtus fulva, jugulo pectoreque \flavescente~ 



griseis, pectorefusco maculato. 

 Dusky-brown Lark, beneath fulvous, with the jugulum and 



breast yellowish-grey, the latter spotted with fuscous. 

 Alauda ludoviciana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 7Q3.Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 494. p. 



La Farlouzanne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 38. 

 Louisiane Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 376. 7- 



LARGER than Alauda agrestis, which it greatly 

 resembles : it is seven inches in length : the upper 

 parts of its body are varied with greenish and 

 dusky brown: the wing-coverts and quills are 

 blackish brown, bordered with paler brown : the 

 throat, neck, and breast yellowish grey, the two 

 latter spotted with brown ; the rest of the under 

 parts fulvous : the outer tail-feather half brown, 

 half white, the next tipped with the latter colour, 

 and the rest of the tail plain brown. Inhabits 

 Louisiana. 



