GALKUIDA. LULLULA. 



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Eggs of the Talc Short-billed Crested Lark are similar to those 

 of G. harterti. They measure respectively : '90 by '04 ; '85 by (>(> ; 

 81 by -68. 



Crowley Bequest. 



1. El Aghouat, Central Algeria, May 



(Dr. Reboud: Tristram Coll.}. 



2. El Aghouat (Locke: Tristram 



Coll.). 



Crowley Bequest. 



Galerida malabarica (/Scop.). 

 (Plate VIII. figs. 15 & 16.) 



Galerita malabarica, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. C33 (1890) ; Gates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ltd., Birds, ii. p. 338 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests $ 7%s 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 237 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 134 (1899). 



Galerida malabarica, Sharpe, H.and-1. v. p. 182 (1900). 



The eggs of the Malabar Crested Lark closely resemble those of 

 Spizalaucla deva. They measure from*71 to '9 in length, and from 

 57 to -62 in breadth. 



2. Ratnagiri, West Coast of India, Hume Coll. 

 5th Oct. (G. Vidal). 



1. Ratnajriri, 23rd Oct. (O. V.\ Hume Cull. 



2. Hatnagiri, 27th Oct. (G. V,). Hume Coll. 



1. Ratnag-iri, 3rd Nov. (G. V.}. Hume Coll. 



2. Ratnao-iri, 10th Nov. (G. V.}. Hume Coll. 

 4. Ratuagiri, 23rd Nov. ( G. V.}. Hume Coll. 



3. Nilcrhiri Hills, 8th April (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



2. Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 8th May Hume Coll. 

 (Miss Cockburn). 



Genus LULLULA, Kaup. 

 Lullula arborea (Linn.}. 



Alauda nemorosn, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxvi. fig. 4, a-d 

 (1845-54). 



Alauda arboreo, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 66. fig. 5 (1855-63) ; Hewit- 

 son, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 179, pi. xlv. tig. iii (185(5) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iv. p. 321 (1873) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 256, pi. 15 

 (1884) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 40; Seebohm, Egqs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 255, pi. 58. tig. 8 (1896); Rey, Eier Vog. Mrtteleurop. p. 258, 

 pi. 36. tigs. 13-17 (1900; ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 389 

 (1902). 



Lullula arborea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 636 (1890) ; Hartert, 

 Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 241 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 182 

 (1906). 



The eggs of the Wood-Lark are mostly of a broad pointed oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. They are white or greyish-white, 

 thickly speckled and mottled with dull reddish-brown or olive- 

 brown, and underlying lavender or grey. The markings on the 

 eggs of this Lark are almost invariably fine and speckly, and they 



