234 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



We are not thoroughly acquainted yet with the geographical 

 distribution of this species, which might be sometimes overlooked 

 as a large specimen of the last. Mr. Hodgson sent it from Nepal. 

 Blyth first procured it from Darjeeling, where I found it tolerably 

 common about the Station, and in stubble fields. I also procured 

 it in the Nellore District, in the South of India, generally near low 

 bushy hills, not approaching houses like the last ; it is not rare 

 at Saugor, in Central India, in similar localities ; and it probably 

 will be found more or less, throughout India, during the cold 

 weather. It does not breed, that I am aware of, in India, even at 

 Darjeeling, coming in towards the end of September. Swinhoe 

 records that it visits China during the winter. I know nothing 

 further of its habits, but that it has a stronger flight than A. rufula, 

 and frequently takes shelter under trees or shrubs. 



C. Basselti, Brehm, from Java, is recorded, perhaps the same as 

 malayends/ii that species be really distinct from rufula ; and A . 

 euonyx, Caban., may be another synonym. Blyth has also Cory- 

 dalla infuscata, from the Philippines. 



3rd Stone-pipits, or Lark Pipits. 



Gen. Agrodroma, Swainson. 



Hind claw comparatively short ; bill moderately strong ; plumage 

 more uniform and less streaked. 



The Lark Pipits habitually frequent more bare, rocky, and stony 

 ground than any of the preceding groups, and some affect chiefly, 

 mountainous or hilly regions. Besides the obsolete character of 

 the markings of the plumage noted above, the outer tail feathers 

 have less white, and more sullied in its tint. None of the three 

 species inhabiting India are peculiar to it. 



602. Agrodroma campestris, Lin. 



Alauda, apud LiNNiEus— Blyth, Cat. 760— A rufulus, apud 

 Jerdon, Cat. 192— A rufescens, Temm,— Gould, Birds of Europe, 

 pi. m—CMllu, H. 



The Stone-pipit. 

 JJescr. — General tone of plumage pale rufous grey, some of the 

 feathers, especially of the head, centred with dusky, those on the 



