340 ALATTDIDJS. 



Ball, S. F. vii, p. "223 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 276 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. M. xiii, p. 642 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 240. 



Aggiya, Eetal, Hind. 5 Ambali-jori-gadu, Dowa-pitta, Tel. 



Coloration. Upper plumage dark brown, with slightly darker 

 shafts and obsolete pale margins to all the feathers, those of the 

 head with blackish streaks ; upper tail-coverts deep rufous ; tail 

 deep rufous with a broad black tip ; wing-coverts and quills brown 

 margined with sandy brown, the quills with a large amount of 

 rufous on the inner web ; a very indistinct supercilium pale rufous ; 

 sides of the head rufous streaked with brown ; entire lower plum- 

 age rufous, the chin, throat, and breast streaked with brown. 



Bill horny brown above, fleshy at the base beneath ; legs fleshy ; 

 iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length about 6-5; tail 2-4; wing 4-1; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape *65. 



Distribution. A permanent resident over a considerable portion 

 of the peninsula of India. The western limit of this species 

 appears to be a line drawn from the head of the liann of Cutch to 

 Delhi and thence produced to the Granges ; the northern boundary 

 would appear to be the Ganges itself as far as Dinapore, and thence 

 this Lark is spread over the entire country, in suitable localities, 

 down to Coimbatore. 



Habits, fyc. Breeds from February to April, making its nest of 

 grass on the ground and laying three or four eggs, which are 

 speckled with yellowish and reddish brown and measure about '85 

 by -62. 



878. Ammomanes phoenicuroides. The Desert Finch-Lark. 



Mirafra phoenicuroides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxii, p. 583 (1853). 

 Ammomanes phoenicuroides (BlytJi), Horsf, fy M. Cat. ii, p. 478 ; 



Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 647 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ JE. 2nd ed. 



ii, p. 242. 

 Ammomanes lusitanica (Gmel.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 422 ; Hume, N. fy E. 



p. 478; id. 8. F. i, p. 211. 

 Ammomanes deserti (Licht.), Hume, Cat. no. 759; Barnes, Birds 



Bom. p. 276. 



The Pale-rufous Finch-Lark, Jerd. 



Coloration. Upper plumage greyish brown, tinged with rufous 

 on the upper tail-coverts and slightly streaked with blackish on 

 the crown ; tail brown margined with pale rufous, the outer web 

 of the outer tail-feather entirely of this colour, the bases of all the 

 feathers tinged reddish ; wing-coverts and quills brown margined 

 with pale fulvous, the inner web of all the quills largely pale 

 rufous ; lores brown ; a ring round the eye and a line above and 

 below the lores fulvous white ; ear-coverts greyish brown ; chin 

 and throat pale fulvous white, with a few brown spots on the 



