292 AVES. 
so common as the preceding, and frequents the vicinity of 
villages, &c. 
Al. arborea; Al. nemorosa; Cujeliers Enl. 503, 2; Naum. 100, 
2. (The Woodlark.) A small, but not so strongly marked 
tuft; it is smaller, and is otherwise distinguished by a whitish 
streak round the head, and a white line on the little coverts; 
prefers the heaths in the interior of the forests.(1) We some- 
times see in Europe, 
Al. alpestris, Al. flava, and Al. sibirica, Gm.; Alouette a hausse- 
col noir, Enl. 652, 2; Naum. 99, 2, 3; Wils. I, v, 4. From Si- 
beria and North America; forehead, cheeks, and throat yellow, 
with black streaks; a large, black, transverse spot on top of the 
breast; a small pointed tuft behind each ear of the male. 
Some of them have so stout a beak, that, with respect to it, we 
might approximate them to the Sparrows. Such are 
Al. calandra; La Calandre; Enl. 363, 2; Naum. 98, 1. The 
largest of the European species; brown above; white beneath; 
a.large blackish spot on the breast of the male. From the south 
of Europe, and the deserts of Asia. , 
Al. tartarica, and mutabilis, and Tanagra sibirica, Gm.— 
Alouetie de Tartarie; Sparm. Mus. Carls. pl. xix; Vieill. Galer. 
106. The plumage of the adult black, undulated above with 
grey. It occasionally wanders into Europe.(2) ~~ by 
In others, the beak is elongated, slightly compressed, and arcuated, 
which connects them with Upupa and ae Such is © 
Al. africana, Gm.; Le Sirli; Enl. 712; Vieill. Galer, 159. 
Common in all the sandy plains pear sie its plumage scarcely 
differs from that of the Arvensis.(3) 
Parus, Lin. 
The Titmouse has a slender, short, conical and straight beak, fur- 
nished with little hairs at the base, and the nostrils concealed among 
the feathers. It is a genus of very active little birds, which are 
continually flitting and climbing from branch to branch, suspending 
a 
(1) Add, of European species, the Girole (.41. italica) ;—the Coquillade (.Al. un- 
data), Enl. 662; 41. brachydactyla, Naum. 98, 2. Species foreign to Europe, the 
Bateleuse, Vaill. Afr. 194;—the Dos roux, Id. 197:—the Calotte rousse, Id., 198. 
N.B. The .4/. magna, Catesb., I, 33, is the Sturnus ludovicianus. 
(2) Add, the T’racal, Vaill. Afr. pl. exci ;—the .4. gros bec, Id., pl., exciii. 
(3) Add, 4. bifasciata, Rupp., pl., 5; Col., 395. 
N.B. Swainson separates from Atsaupa the Bateleur of Vaill. pl. 194, under the 
name of Bracnonyx; his Sentinelle, 195, under that of Macronyx ; and of my di- 
vision with long beaks he makes his Cerrariaupa. 
