GALEEIDA. LULLULA. US 



Eggs i)f the Pale Short-billed Crested Lark are similar to those 

 of O. Tiarterti. They measure respectively : -90 by '64 ; '85 by "66 ; 

 ■81 by -68. 



1. El Aghouat, Central Algeria, May Crowley Bequest. 



{Dr. Reboud: Tristram Coll.). 



2. El AghoLiat (Zoche : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



Galerida malabariea {Scop.). 

 (Plate VIIL figs. 15 & 16.) 



Galerita malabariea, 8harpe, Cat. Birds S. M. xiii. p. 633 (1890) ; Gates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 338 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests ^ Egys 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 237 (1890) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 134 (1899). 



Galerida malabariea, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 182 (190G). 



The eggs of the Malabar Crested Lark closely resemble those of 

 Spizalauda deva. They measure from -71 to -9 in length, and from 

 •57 to -62 in breadth. 



2. Ratnagiri, West Coast of India, Hume Coll. 

 5th Oct. (G. Vidal). 



1. Katnaffiri, 23rdOct. ((?. F.). Hume Cull. 



2. Ratnagiri, 27th Oct. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 



1. liatnagiri, 3rd Nov. {G. V.). Hume Coll. 



2. Ratnaairi, 10th Nov. (G. V.). Hume Coll. 

 4. Katuagiri, 23rd Nov. (G. F:). Hume Coll. 

 8. Nilghiri Hills,, 8th April {Miss Hume CoU. 



Cockhu7-n). 

 2. Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 8th May Hume Coll. 

 {Miss Cockburn). 



Genus LULLTJLA, Kaup. 

 Lullula arborea {Linn.). 



Alauda nemoroa.'i, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Viig. tab. xxvi. fig. 4, a-d 

 (1845-54). 



Alauda arborea, Baedeker, Fier Eur. Vog. tab. 66. fig. 5 (1865-63) ; Hewit- 

 svn. Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 179, pi. xlv. fig. iii (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iv. p. 321 (1873) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 256, pi. 15 

 (1884) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 40 ; Seebohm, Egos of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 255, pi 58.. fig. 8 (1896); Bey, Eier Vog. Mi}teleurop. p. 258, 

 pi. 36. figs. 13-17 (1900j ; Dresser, Man. Bal. Birds, pt. i. p. 389 

 (1902). 



Lullula arborea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 636 (1890) ; Hariert, 

 Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 241 (1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 182 

 (1906). 



The eggs of the Wood-Lark are mostly of a broad pointed oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. They are white or greyish-white, 

 thickly speckled and mottled with duU reddish-brown or olive- 

 brown, and underlying lavender or grey. The markings on the 

 eggs of this Lark are almost invariably fine and speokly, and they 



