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An egg of Hodgson's Sky-Lark is of a wide, somewhat pointed, 

 oval form and slightly glossy. The ground-colour is greyish-white, 

 thickly speckled with olive-brown and lavender-grey ; the markings 

 being most numerous round the bro id end, where they form an 

 indistinct zone. It measures '85 by '66. 



1. Sooamurg, Kashmir, 2nd May Hume Coll. 

 (C.It. Cock). 



Alauda pekinensis, SwinJi. 

 (Plate VII. fig. 10.) 



Alauda arvensis pekinensis, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 248 



(1905). 

 Alauda arvensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 166 (1906) [pt.]. 



Two eggs of the East Siberian Sky-Lark closely resemble the 

 above in shape. The ground-colour is dull grey or greenish-white, 

 spotted with umber-brown and lavender-grey, most of the markings 

 being concentrated round the larger end, where they form a more 

 or less wide confluent zone. They measure respectively '88 by -GO 

 and -94 by -65. 



1. South Amurland, 20th April. Crowley Bequest. 



1. South Amurland, 1st May. Crowley Bequest. 



Alauda gulgula, Franld. 

 (Plate VII. figs. 6 & 7.) 



Alauda gulgula, Sharpe, Cat Birds B. M. xiii. p. 575 (1890) [pt.] ; 



~pt.] ; id.,ed. Hume, 

 Ne*ts$ JEf/ys Ind. Birds, ii. p. 221 (1890) ; NeTirk. Kat. Eiersamml. 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 326 (1890) [pt.] ; id., ed. 



p. 133 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 167 (1906). 

 Alauda gulgula gulgula, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 249 (1905). 



Eggs of the Indian Sky-Lark vary in shape from a rounded oval 

 to a somewhat wide pointed oval and are more or less glossy. 

 The ground-colour varies from white to greenish-white, and even 

 to pale buff, and is usually marked all over with either reddish- 

 brown, olive-brown or greyish-brown, and with lavender-grey ; in 

 some specimens the markings are very fine and dense, in others 

 they are less numerous, some taking the form of small blotches, 

 while in one example most of the markings are concentrated into a 

 heavy olive-brown zone round the larger end. They vary from 

 75 to -85 in length, and from '56 to *64 in breadth. 



One clutch of three eggs from Akola presents an altogether 

 different type of coloration, being of a dull greenish-white, densely 

 but obscurely mottled all over with greenish-brown and grey ; 

 they closely resemble the eggs of Calandrella brachydactyla. 



7. Sind (/". H. Gould). Gould Coll. 



1. Alniorah, Himalayas, llth May Hume Coll. 

 (W. E. Brooks). 



