ALAUDA LAGEPA.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate LXXXVII. Fig. 2. (Male.) 



A. supra fcrruginea, fusco-virgata ; infra alba, poctore fusco-strigato ; rcmigibus rectricibusque bnmneis 

 rufo-marginatis ; supercillis albis ; rostro rubro-brunneo ; oculis brunneis ; pedibus flavo-brunneis 

 carneo-tinctis. 



LoNGiTUDO ^ rostri apice ad basin caudee 3 unc. 4 lin. ; caudffi 3 unc. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head, neck, and back, intermediate 

 between brownish and reddish orange, and variegated with short streaks of 

 uniber-brown, each feather having a stripe of that colour in the course of 

 the shaft, — the stripes of the head and interscapulars darkest and best 

 marked. The mider parts white, streaked on the throat, breast, and flanks 

 with umber-brown, — the streaks largest and most numerous on the breast. 

 The lesser wing coverts anteriorly marked like the feathers of the back, the 

 hinder ones, together with the primary and secondary quill coverts, and the 

 tertiary quill feathers umber-brown edged, and tipped with sienna-yellow. 

 The primary and secondary quill feathers intermediate between broccoli and 

 umber-brown, the former towards the base and the latter throughout the whole 

 length of outer veins edged with reddish orange, towards the margin fading 

 into sienna-yellow. Tail feathers the same colour as the primary quill 

 feathers, the two outermost of each side darkest, almost umber-brown, the 

 two middle feathers have each vane edged with light reddish orange, the 

 remainder have only the outer vein narrowly edged with that colour. Under 

 tail coverts white, each with a clear reddish orange stripe in the course of the 

 shaft. Bill light reddish brown, the lower mandible towards base pale buff 

 orange. Eyes bright brown ; eyebrows rusty white. Legs and toes interme- 

 diate between broccoli and yellowish brown, and tinted with flesh-red; claws 

 light reddish brown. 



