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CALANDRA LARK. 



GRANIVOILE. 



Family ALAVBIBJE. 



Genus Alauda. ( ' Linnceus.J 



CALANDRA LARK, 



Alauda calandra. 



Alauda calandra, 



Melanocorypha calandra, 



Calandra bimacidata, 

 Alouette calandre, 

 Kalander Lerche, 



Brisson; Ornith., vol. iii., p. 352, 1760. 

 Linn^us; S. N., 12th. edit., 1766, 



vol. i., p. 226. 

 Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 

 Latham; Ind., vol. ii., p. 496, 1790. 

 Meyer and Wolff; Tasch. der Deuts., 



p. 261, 1810. 

 Vieillot; Diet, et Faun. Franc., 1 816. 

 Temminck; Man., 1820. Lesson, 183 i. 

 Schinz; Eur. Faun., 1820. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Degland, 1849. 

 Ch. Bonaparte; List, 1838. 

 Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 



MfJHLE, 1844. LOCHE, 1858. 



Salvin and Tristram; Ibis, 1859. 



Dubois. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak compressed, and the upper mandible curved and 

 overlapping the under one, so as to form a sharp point — as long again as 

 broad. First primary the longest, the second nearly as long, and about the 

 same difference in size between that and the third; fourth an inch shorter 

 than the third, and about the same difference in size between the fourth 

 and fifth and the fifth and sixth. All the tail feathers except the two upper 

 ones tipped with white, and the two laterals almost entirely of that colour. 



