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Subfamily ALaupINz. 
Genus ALAUDA. 
Aaupa Deva, Sykes. 
I have some eggs which I believe to be those of this lark, though 
on account of the similarity of the two or three species that inhabit 
the Deccan it is very difficult to state this positively. I obtained the 
eggs on the 11th of September; the nest was composed of a few stems 
of grass collected together, and forming a very slight receptacle for 
the eggs. Birds of this species breed twice during the year; I have 
obtained their eggs during the months of May, September, and Oc- 
tober. They lay but two eggs, of a pale mottled brown colour, 
with a band of the same round the larger end; they are rather 
more than ;4,ths of an inch long by nearly ,5>ths of an inch wide. 
6. Caratocus Moxtiuscorum PNEUMONATORUM INSULARUM 
MapeERENSIUM: oR A List OF ALL THE LAND AND FRESH- 
WATER SHELLS, RECENT AND FossiL, OF THE MabDEIRAN 
IsLANDS: ARRANGED IN GROUPS ACCORDING TO THEIR Na- 
TURAL AFFINITIES ; WITH DIAGNOSES OF THE GROUPS, AND 
OF THE NEW OR HITHERTO IMPERFECTLY DEFINED SPECIES. 
By R. T. Lows, M.A., Corresponpinc MEMBER OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC. 
The list of Madeiran Land Mollusks has been considerably extended 
of late years, in some measure by my own researches, but incompa- 
rably more by the discoveries of Mr. Wollaston and Mr. T. 8. Lea- 
cock. To the penetrating eye and accurate discriminative powers of 
the first-named able and accomplished naturalist are due not less 
than thirty species, which had hitherto escaped notice; belonging 
principally to the genus Pupa, yet comprising several fine and some 
most curious new forms of Helix: whilst his rich collections of dcha- 
tina in Porto Santo have enabled me to establish at least twice the 
number of species previously found there, and to fix, on more sub- 
stantial grounds, the diagnoses of the rest. Mr. Leacock also has 
discovered several new species, and by his exact observations helped 
materially in many cases to confirm or elucidate the characters 
assigned to those already noticed. 
These additions being so considerable, it seemed better, instead of 
intercalating them in a late republication of some former papers on 
the Fauna and Flora of Madeira*, to furnish in a distinct form a 
fresh and complete list of all the species, recent and fossil: giving 
the diagnoses of those only which remain imperfectly described, or 
which have been discovered since 1830; and reserving fuller details 
* Primitiz et Novitie Faunz et Flore Mader et Portis Sancti, &c. Cum 
Appendice. Van Voorst, London, 1851. 
No. CCLXX.—Proceepincs or THE ZooLoeicat Soctery. 
