SHORT-TOED LARK. 



PA8SERES. 



637 



ALAUDID^. 





CALANDKELLA BRACHYDACTYLA (Leisler*). 

 SHORT-TOED LARK. 

 Alauda brachydactyla. 



CALANDRELLA, Kaup f. Bill rather short, stout and compressed, upper man- 

 dible arched and without notch. Nostrils basal, oval, closely covered by feathers 

 and bristles directed forwards. Gape straight. Head without elongated 

 feathers. Wings moderately long : first primary so small as at first sight to 

 seem wanting, second, third and fourth nearly equal, but the third longest ; 

 secondaries short and emarginate at the tip ; tertials very long, about equal to 

 the fifth primary. Tail rather long and slightly forked. Tarsus blunt and 

 scutellated behind as well as before, longer than the middle toe. Claws slightly 

 curved and very short, except that of the hind toe which is moderately elongated 

 and nearly straight. 



AT the end of October, 1841, I was informed by Mr. H. 

 Shaw, of Shrewsbury, that an example of the Short-toed 

 Lark had been caught in a net near that town on the 25th of 



* Alauda Iracliydactila (misprint), Leisler, Annalen der Wetterauischen 

 Gresellschaft fur die gesammte Naturkunde, iii. tab. xix. p. 357 (1814). 



t Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und Naturliches System der Euro- 

 piiischen Thierwelt, p. 39 (1829). 



