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band broad, black; above and sides ashy ; larger wing- 

 coverts white-edged and tipt ; tail and quills blackish ; 

 two outer tail-feathers white ; length seven inches. 



Cape Wagtail. M. Capensis, Lin. PI. Enl. t. 28. f. 2. 

 Brown, beneath white ; chest-band brown ; eyebrows 

 white ; tail black ; side tail-feather obliquely white. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Pipits, or Field-larks, (Anthus, Bechst.) 

 have been for a long while united to the Larks, on 

 account of the long kind of claw ; but their slender 

 and sloped beak approximates them to the other 

 slender-beaks. At the same time their quills and 

 secondary coverts, as short as usual, do not allow us to 

 confound them with the Wagtails. Some, whose claw 

 is sufficiently marked, perch willingly. 



The Field-lark, \Alauda Trivialis et Minor, Gml.) 

 Anthus Arhorius, Bechst. Enl. 660. 1. 

 Brown-olive, above grayish, underneath spotted with 

 blackish on the chest; two pale transverse spots on 

 the wins. 



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The Anthus Breviunguis, Spix. Braz. t. 76. f. 1. 

 belongs also to this division. 

 Others have on the thumb the complete claw of a 

 lark. They most usually remain attached to the ground. 



The Meadow-lark. Alauda PratensisyGm. Anthus 

 Pratensis, Bechst. Enl. 661. 2. Geoff. Ois. Egypt. 

 t. 5. f. 6. 

 Olive-brown above, whitish underneath ; some 

 brown spots on the breast and sides ; a whitish eye- 

 brow; the edges of the external quills of the tail white. 



