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back, and wing coverts, brown, margined at the ends with very 

 pale rufous, and a white fpot at the tip of each : the quills and 

 tail are dirty brown, with pale rufous margins : the legs of the 

 laft colour. 

 Place. Inhabits the coaft of Malabar. 



_ ':;• La petite Alouette grife de Gingi, Son. Voj. Ind. vol. ii. p. 203. pi. iij> 



f. 2. 



Dsscription. CIZE of the Goldfinch :■ length four inches and a half. Bill 



and legs of a pale rufous grey : the plumage on the upper 



parts is of a greyifh umber-colour : the head cinereous grey : 



through the eye a ftreak of black : throat and under part& 



black. 



Place. Found about Gingi, and other parts of the Coromandel coaft. 



BLACK LARK Alauda Tartarica, Pall. Tra<v. ii. p. 707. N" 15. t. c. 



Black Lark, Ai-a. Zool. 



Descrietign. CIZE of a Starling. Bill flout, of a yellowifh horn-colour ; 

 tip brown : noftrils covered with hairy feathers : the general 

 colour of the plumage dufky black :. the feathers of the head and 

 neck edged with dufky white : upper parts of the body the fame, 

 but edged deeper with white t quills black, cordated at the tip :■ 

 tail fomewhat forked in fhape ^ the two middle feathers black,, 

 with pale margins j the next, pale on the edge at the tip ; the- 

 others all black : legs black ; the hind claw elongated, fharp, : 

 and pretty ftrait. 

 Femaie. The females and young birds are brown^ not unlike the Sky- 



lark ; the feathers round the bill pale ; thofe on the upper parts, 



of. 



