sti{t<:kiax lark. 
following remarks: — “Though this bird is so rare in 
Europe, M. le Baron Selys-Longchamps possesses one, 
which was taken in the environs of Liege, in December, 
1855. Having had it preserved, he kindly brouglit it 
to me to add to the supplementary list, before the family 
of Larks was concluded. The habits and propagation 
of this bird are very little known; its voice is not so 
agreeable as that of the Skylark, though its movements 
are equally elegant. It nests like it on the ground, in 
a slight excavation. It is not very timid, and allows 
people to approach it rather closely without fear.” 
A male specimen, sent me by Mr. Tristram from the 
Volga, without date, but from the freshness and bright- 
ness of the plumage, evidently in its nuptial robes, has 
the upper parts rich brown, bordered with russet, lighter 
on the nape; the top of the head, lesser wing coverts, and 
upper tail coverts, a brilliant red russet, which gives 
the bird a marked and distinctive character. The in- 
ferior parts are of a bluish white, wdth here and there a 
russet feather; the throat, crop, and sides of the neck 
spotted vdth brown and russet, the latter colour per- 
vading the ear coverts. Under wing coverts and second- 
aries pure white, and the primaries blackish brown 
below; above, the primaries and secondaries are dark 
brown, the latter at first white on the inner web, be- 
coming nearly entirely so in the middle. Tail feathers 
brown, with more or less white on their inner webs; 
the laterals quite of that colour. Beak livid, the upper 
mandible darkest; tarsi russet; feet dark brown. 
]My illustrations of the bird and its egg are from 
specimens sent me by Mr. Tristram; the former is a 
male. They were obtained from the keeper of the Im- 
perial Museum of St. Petersburg, and arc stated to be 
from Dr. Middendorff. 
It has been also figured by Pallas, as Alauda leucop- 
