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was inclined to refer to G. ahyssinica, Bon., although its 

 dimensions are much smaller. 



Mr. Tristram, however, informs me that it agrees in 

 everything except colour with his G. arenicola. 



177. Alauda praetermissa, W. Blanf. (Plate VI.). 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Nov. 1869. 



A. supra fusco-vmbrma, capitis, colU postici, interscapulmque 

 plv/mis late et palUde rufescenti ma/rginatis, dorso posteriori 

 magis cinerascenti, vix striolato ; sttperciliis et ga^reo toto 

 isabellinis; gems, colli laterihus, pectoreque saturatiorihus et 

 fuscO'gvMatis, regione paroticd fuscescenti ; remigibus et tectri- 

 cibus ala/rum unibrinis, pri/ma/riis extus isdbelUno secunda/riis 

 tectricibusque rufo-ma/rginaiis, remigibus omnibus intus versus 

 basin rufo-fuhns ; uropygio et reetricibus medianis rufescenti- 

 wmbrinis, reetricibus exteris pogoniointemo basin versus exceptis 

 et pagoniis externis secundarv/m rufo-isahellinis, cceteris cwm 

 partibus reliquis externarum fv/moso-nigricantibus. Caput sub- 

 eristatv/m, rostrum supra fuscum, subtus paJlidu/m, pedes camei 



The first primary is | to t^ inch in length, the second 

 very little shorter than the third, which is nearly equal 

 to the fourth. 



I found this to be the common Skylark around Senafd 

 and Adigrat, with precisely the habits of the European 

 bird. It is distinguished by the bill being stronger and 

 the wing decidedly shorter. I cannot find any descrip- 

 tion agreeing with it amongst the birds included in 

 Von Heuglin's lists ; and as Mr. Gray, Dr. Finsch, and 



