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Botii sexes. Bill at front, 0-35 to 0-41 ; tarsus, 0-67 to 0-77. 



The irides are brown, the leg-s and feet fleshy brown ; claws, 

 dusky ; soles whitish. The bill, orange yellow, in some probably 

 less mature, pale yellow, brownish on upper mandible. 



In the male the head is pale, bluish grey, the feathers tipped 

 browner ; the chin, throat, breast, cheeks, and ear coverts, a sort 

 of blue g'rey, the feathers faintly tinged, most conspicuously so 

 round the base of the lower mandible, with pale rosy ; the ab- 

 domen, vent, and lower tail coverts, very pale rosy white, the 

 longest of the latter with dark shafts ; the back and scapulars 

 dull earthy brown, with when fresh a faint rosy tinge, which 

 disappears in the dried skin, and somewhat greyer towards the 

 nape ; rump, pale brown, more decidedly tinged with rosy ; the 

 visible portion of upper tail coverts rosy white, more strongly 

 tinged with rosy at the margins, the centres and bases of the 

 longest being pale brown ; these however are not seen till the 

 feathers are lifted. The tail feathers dark brown, conspicuously, 

 though narrowly, margined with rosy white, which is most rosy 

 towards the bases of the lateral feathers. The wings hair-brown, 

 conspicuously margined and tipped, the coverts, secondaries, and 

 tertiaries most broadly so, with pale rose color, or rosy white. 

 There is a very narrow, inconspicuous, pale rosy frontal band. 

 The wing lining and axillaries are pure white ; the winglet 

 alone is dark-brown, unmargined with rosy. 



The female has the whole upper surface and the side of the 

 head and body a dull pale earth}^ brown, with only a faint rosy 

 tinge upon the rump and upper tail coverts ; the lower parts a 

 still paler earthy brown, with the faintest possible roseate tinge 

 on the breast and becoming albescent on the vent and lower tail 

 coverts and tibial plumes. The wings and tail are as in the 

 male ; but the margins are narrower and less conspicuous, and 

 are pale brownish instead of rosy white. 



This species if (as I think there is little doubt) I have cor- 

 rectly identified it, has been observed in the Islands of the 

 MediteiTanean and the countries bordering thereon, France, 

 Italy, Algeria, Syria, Arabia Petraea, and again, in the Canary 

 Islands on the West, and Nubia on the East Coast of Africa. 



759.— Ammomanes lusitania, Gmel. 



This, in and about the hilly portions of Sindh, is the lark par \~^ 

 excellence; in the barest and most desolate hills, absolutely de- 

 void of the slightest trace of vegetation (all about Duryalo 

 they had had no rain for more than two years when I was there) 

 this bird was abundant. From the very northernmost to the 

 extreme southern point of Sindh, it was equally plentiful in 



