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PIPIT LARK. 

 (Alauda sepiaria.) 



AL. rectricibusfuscis, extima dimidiato alba, secunda apice cunei- 



formi alba, linea alarum duplici alba. 

 Lark with brown tail-feathers, the outer one half white, the 



second with a wedge-shaped spot at the tip of that colour, 



and a double line of the wings also white. 

 Alauda sepiaria. Briss. Orn. 3. 347. 

 Alauda trivialis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 288. 5. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



403. 6. 



Alouette pipi. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 3Q. pi 4. 

 Pipit Lark. Albin. Birds. 1. pi. 44. Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. 



Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. App. 



THE top of the head and the whole of the upper 

 parts of the body are of a rusty olivaceous brown, 

 striped with dusky : the wing-coverts and quills 

 are dusky ; the former are edged with pale oliva- 

 ceous brown, the primary quills excepted, which 

 are bordered with olive green : the sides of the 

 neck, breast, and sides of the body, streaked with 

 oblong dusky spots : the whole of the under parts 

 pale ferruginous ; darkest on the breast, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts, and lightest on the chin : rump 

 plain brown : the two middle tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, with pale margins ; the outer web of the 

 exterior feather on each side white, towards the 

 tip brownish ; the web also white, except at the 

 base ; the second feather is white at the tip only, 

 and the rest are dusky black, slightly edged with 

 greenish brown: legs dull yellow: claws horn- 

 colour j the hinder one slightly bent. 



