462 ALAUDID. 
side pale brown, with a dark brown patch on the mner 
web; the two middle tail-feathers nearly uniform pale 
brown, all the other eight feathers brownish black, with 
a triangular spot of white at the tip: the form of the tail 
square at the end; the ear-coverts are brown; the throat, 
breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, pale yellowish brown, 
with a few small elongated spots of dark brown on the 
breast ; legs, toes, and claws light brown; the hind claw 
straight, and half as long again as the hind toe. 
The whole length of a male bird rather more than six 
inches. From the carpal joint to the end of the wing 
three inches and three-eighths: the first feather very 
short ;. the second not quite so long as the third, which 
is the longest in the wing; the fourth and fifth nearly 
as long as the second. 
The female is rather smaller than the male, and has the 
spots on the breast more numerous. 
