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MELANOCORYPHA SIBIEICA. 



(WHITE-WINGED LARK.) 



Alauda calandra, Linn.'?, Pallas, Reise Russischen Reichs, ii. p. 708. no. 15* (1773) ; op. cit. 



iii. p. 697, note (1776). 

 Alauda sibirica, Gm. S. N. i. p. 799. no. 31 (1788), ex Pallas. 

 Alauda calandra, Linn., var. /3, Latham, Ind. Ornith. ii. p. 497. no. 17 (1790). 

 Alauda arvensis rujiceps, Bechstein, Gemein. Naturgesch. Deutschl. iv. p. 121 (1795). 

 Alauda leucoptera, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 518. no. 147, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2 (1831). 

 Phileremos sibirica (J. Fr. Gm.), Keyserl. & Blasius, Wirbelth. Europa's, p. xxxvii. no. 85, 



p. 153. no. 85 (1840). 

 Melanocorypha leucoptera (Pallas), Bp. Consp. i. p. 243 (1850). 

 Calandrella sibirica (Gm.), Brandt, fide Bp. loc. cit. (1850). 

 Calandra leucoptera (Pallas), Dubois, Ois. de la Belg. pi. 102 b (1858). 

 Pallasia leucoptera (Pallas), E. F. v. Homeyer, J. f. Orn. 1873, p. 190. 



(The above by Lord Walden.) 



Belokriloi Javronsk, Russian ; SJcowronek bialoskrzydly, Polish. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Dubois, torn. eit. ; Bree, B. of Eur. vol. ii. ; Pall. torn. cit. taf. xxxiii. fig. 2. 



cf ad. supra grisescenti-brunneus, versus nucham pallidior, plumis omnibus medialiter saturatioribus : pileo 

 rufescente: supra oculos vitta superciliari alba: regione parotica rufescente, vix albido notata: 

 tectricibus alarum rufeseentibus, majoribus medialiter fulvido notatis et vix flavicante cervino termi- 

 nals : remigibus nigricantibus, primariis vix albido marginatis et apicatis, scapis albidis, secundariis 

 conspicue albo terminatis, tribus intimis nigricanti-brunneis, in pogonio externo ad basin albis : 

 uropygio et supracaudalibus rufeseentibus : cauda, nigricanti-brunnea, vix grisescente brunneo mar- 

 ginata, rectrice externa alba, secunda in pogonio externo albli : subtiis albus, hypochondriis vix 

 rufescente lavatis : pectore superiore brunneo notato : tibiis rufeseentibus : rostro brunnescenti-corneo : 

 pedibus flavicanti-brunneis : iride brunnea. 



2 ad. mari similis, sed obscurior : pileo pallide rufescente : plumis omnibus medialiter brunneo striatis : 

 corpore subtiis grisescenti-albo. 



Adult Male (Constantinople, 17th February). Head rufous ; feathers round the eye extending backwards, 

 and forming a tolerably distinct eye-brow, white ; ear-coverts rufous, slightly marked with whitish ; 

 back greyish brown, paler on the upper part, each feather having a dark centre, giving a striped 

 appearance ; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous, each feather with a dark shaft-stripe ; wing-coverts 

 bright rufous, the greater ones with a dark centre, and some narrowly edged with yellowish white; 

 quills blackish brown, the primaries narrowly edged and tipped with white, the shafts also being white ; 

 terminal half of the secondaries pure white, forming a conspicuous alar patch ; the three innermost 



