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SVLVIAD.12. 



Inhabits Java. Length nine inches : beak rather 

 stout : plumage brown, mixed on the back with tes- 

 taceous-grey : head varied with brownish-grey ; be- 

 neath whitish : breast slightly streaked with brown : 

 tail elongated and wedged : legs rather stout. 



GENUS CXV.— ANTHUS, Beckstein. PIPIT. 



Rostrum basi glabrum, gra- 

 cile, rectum, subeylindri- 

 cum, marginibus versus 

 mediis introrsum deflexis ; 

 mandibula superior ad 

 apicem emarginata, infe- 

 riorem longius. 



Unguis posticus areuatus, 



aut rectus. 

 Item ex secunda elongata, in- 



tegrra. 



Beak glabrous at the base, 

 slender, straight, rather 

 cylindric, the edges to- 

 wards the middle inter- 

 nally deflexed ; the upper 

 mandible emarginate at the 

 tip and longer than the 

 lower. 



Hinder claio arcuated, or 

 straight. 



Second quill long, entire. 



This genus is divisible into two sections ; the first 

 having the hind claw much arcuated, and the birds 

 contained therein frequently perching, while those of 

 the second have the claw of a true Lark, and usually 

 reside upon the ground. 



Sp. 1. An. trivialis. 



Alauda sepiaria. Strph. v. x. p. 542. — Britain and other parts 

 of Europe. 



Sp. 2. An. agrestis. 



Alauda agrestis. Steph. v. x. p. 527. — Britain and oilier parts 

 of Europe. 



