BROWN LARK. 51 



Plumage blended, soft, with little gloss. Wings rather long, acute, 

 the first, second, and third primaries longest. Tail longish, forked, the 

 feathers rather narrow and sharpish. 



Bill brownish-black. Legs and claws deep brown, tinged with 

 green. Iris brown. Upper parts olive-brown tinged with grey ; throat 

 and a line over the eye brownish-white. Quills brownish-black, mar- 

 gined externally with whitish ; tail of the same colour, the outermost 

 feather half white, the next obliquely white at the end. Under parts 

 reddish white, the sides of the neck and the breast longitudinally spotted 

 with dark brown. 



Length 6| inches, extent of wings 10| ; bill J-^ along the ridge, 

 I along the gap ; tarsus j^, middle toe | ; hind toe | including the claw, 

 which is ^^. 



Adult Female. Plate X. Fig. 2. 



The female differs from the male only in being somewhat smaller, and 

 in having the colours paler, and the upper parts more tinged with 

 brown. 



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