ALAUDA CODEA— Smith. 



AvEs.— Plate LXXXVII. Fig. 1. (Female.) 



A. supra flavo-grisea brunneo-strigata ; gula guttureque albis ; pectore albo, brunneo-nibro-strigata ; 



ventre rufo-albo ; superciliis albis ; rostro pedibusque aurantio-brunneis, brunnco-rubro-iimbratis. 

 LoNGiTUDO h rostri apice ad basin caudie 3 unc. 9 lin. ; caudee 2 unc. 9 lin. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head, neck, and body rusty yellowish 

 grey, the head, neck, and interscapulars variegated with longitudinal 

 streaks of brownish red, washed or tinted with yellowish grey. Chin and 

 throat pure white ; breast white, mottled ^vith spots or stripes of brownish 

 red ; belly rusty white, the flank tinted with pale brown ; thighs wood-brown. 

 Lesser wing coverts and primary and secondary quill coverts brownish red, 

 edged and tipped with white ; primary and secondary quill feathers the same 

 colour, the outer vanes of the primaries towards their base narrowly edged with 

 white, the secondaries edged externally and tipped w ith w hite ; tertiary quill 

 feathers umber-brown, edged and tipped with white. The two middle tail 

 feathers reddish brown, glossed with grey, the rest umber-brown, and all, but 

 particularly the external one of each side, edged and tipped w ith rusty white. 

 Under tail coverts white, streaked with brownish red. Eyebrow-s white ; 

 ear coverts intermediate between broccoli and light orange-coloured brown. 

 Bill, legs, toes, and claws deep orange-coloured brown, shaded with brownish 

 red, the lower mandible towards the base sienna-yellow. 



Form, &c. — Figure rather slender : head rather small and towards nape 

 full of feathers. Bill moderately long, subconical, and nearly straight ; the 

 culmen towards the tip much arched, lower mandible towards the point slightly 

 curved. Wing rounded, and when folded reaches a little beyond the first 

 half of the tail ; the tertiary quill feathers rather longer than the secondaries, 

 and slightly shorter than the primaries, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 primary quill feathers equal and longest, the second a little shorter, and the 



