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389 



Ee Sirli du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. v, p. 65.— PI. ml. 712.. 



T E N G T H eight inches. Bill black, an inch long, and 

 bent towards the point : the upper part of the body is com- 

 pofed of a mixture of brown, rufous, and white, in different 

 fhades * : the wing coverts, quills, and tail, brown, edged with 

 white : the under part of the body white, marked with longitu- 

 dinal brown fpots : legs brown .:. the hind claw feven lines long,, 

 ftrait, and pointed at the end- 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Ho$e.. 



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AFRICAN L. 

 Description, 



Piace, 



CRESTED L; 



Alauda criftata, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 288. N" 6. — Rrun. orn. p. 64. N° 228. — 

 Scop. win. i. p. 128. N° 185. — Kram. el. p. 362. — Mull. p. 29. 

 N° 234. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 173. 



L'Alouette hupee, ou le Cochevis, Brif. orn. iii. p. 357. N° 8. 



Le Cochevis, ou la groffe Alouette huppee, Buf. oif. v. p. 66, — PI. enl. 503. 

 f, 1. 



Alauda criftata major, Rati Syn. p. 69. N° 4,- 



Heide Lerche, Frifcb. t. 15. 



Lodola cappelluta, Olin. uccel. t. 13. 



The Ciefted Lark, Will, orn. p. 208. pi. \o^—Albin, iii. pi. 52. 



Br. Muf. 



t 

 ^pHIS is bigger than the Sky-lark: length fix inches and Description, 



three quarters. Bill under three quarters of an inch, and 



brown :. irides hazel : on the head is a creft,_ compofed of feveral 



feathers, which are darker than the reft of the plumage, and 



nearly half an inch in length : the back is more cinereous, and 



* Many of" the feathers are dark brown in the middle, with rufous margins 

 and white tips. 



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