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GRANTVOR^E. 



Famihj ALA UDIDJE. 



Genus Alai'da. {Linjiceus.J 



DUPONT'S LAEK. 



Alaiida dvpontii. 



Alauda duponiii, 



" ferrugh^ea, 

 Cerildlauda clvponti. 



Alouetle Duponl, 

 Dupont's Lerche, 



ViEiLLOT; Faun. Fr., 



p. 173; 1828. 

 Temminck; Man., 1835. 

 Lesson. Schinz. 



SCHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



MuHLE (?) Orn, Griecli, 



p. 35. 

 Bonaparte; Consp. Av , 



p. 246. 

 Tristeam; Ibis, vol. i, 



p. 427. 

 LocHE; Cat., p. 85. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak as lona; as tlie head, and distinctly 

 curved. Two outer tail feathers white, with a dusky band on the 

 inner web; the second brown black, with the outer web white. 

 Hinder claw shorter than the toe, and distinctly curved. 



Length of male sent me by Mr. Tristram, which is figured, six 

 inches and three quarters; from carpus to tip four inches; tail 

 two inches and a half; beak seven eighths of an inch; tarsus one 

 inch; hinder claw three eighths of an inch; hinder toe lialf an 

 inch. 



