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ALAUDA ARVENSIS. 



(SKY-LARK.) 



Alauda arvensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 287 (1766). 



Alauda italica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 793 (1788). 



Alauda vulgaris, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. &c. Brit. Mus. p. 21 (1816). 



Alauda cwlipeta, Pall. Zoogr. Ross.-Asiat. i. p. 524 (1831). 



Alauda segetum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 318 (1831). 



Alauda montana, id. torn. cit. p. 319 (1831). 



Alauda agrestis, id. torn. cit. p. 320 (1831). 



Alauda cantarella, Bonap. Comp. List. B. Eur. & N. Am. p. 36 (1838, descr. nulla). 



Alauda montana, Crespon, Faun, merid. p. 319 (1844). 



"Alauda triborhynchus, Hodgs.," Gray, Cat. Mamm. &c. Nep. Hodgs. p. 109 (1846). 



"Alauda dulcivox, Hodgs.," Gray, torn. cit. p. 109 (1846). 



Alauda isabellina, Mummery, Zool. 1st ser. p. 1697 (1847, nee Temm.). 



Alauda crassirostris, Brehm, Vollst. Vogelf. p. 125 (1855). 



Alauda bugiensis, id. torn. cit. p. 125 (1855). 



Alauda albigularis, id. torn. cit. p. 125 (1855). 



Alauda tenuirostris, id. torn. cit. p. 125 (1855). 



Alauda minor, id. torn. cit. p. 125 (1855). 



Alauda japonica, Swinh. Ibis. 1861, p. 333 (nee T. & S.). 



Alauda pekinensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 89. 



Alauda intermedia, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 89. 



Sky-Lark, Laverock, Larrock, English ; Alouette des Champs, French ; Zurriaga, Spanish ; 

 Calhandra, Laverca, Portuguese ; Lonara, Sicilian ; Heidelerche, German ; de Leeutuerik, 

 Dutch ; Sanglarka, Swedish ; Lcerke, Norwegian ; Kivenviha, Finnish ; Sangloerke, Gras- 

 Imrke, Markloerke, Lairke, Danish. 



Figures notabiles. 

 Werner, Atlas, Granivores, pi. 5 ; Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pi. 166 ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 409 ; 

 Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iv. Taf. 100 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. Afb. xviii. fig. 5 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. 

 pi. 148 ; Gould, B. of Gt. Br. pt. xv. 



3 (Bsliv. supra brunnea, plumarum parte mediana saturatiore, marginibus fulvescentibus : pileo valde cristate-, 

 crista plumis paullo rotundatis, rarius acutiusculis : colic- postico et laterali magis fulvescentibus, plumis 

 medialiter brunneo striatis : uropygio quoque fulvescenti-brunneo et supracaudalibus vere rufescentibus : 

 scapularibus dorso concoloribus : tectricibus alarum fulvescenti-brunneis, medianis et majoribus auran- 

 tiaco-fulvis, clare albo terminatis : remigibus brunneisj primariis extus albido limbatis, secundariis 

 rufescente versus apicem albicante marginatis, pennis dorsalibus cinerascente lavatis, pennis minimis 



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