dupont's lark. 187 



feather wliite, with black brown internal edge; the 

 second black brown, with a white external edge; the 

 six central feathers dark blackish brown. The under 

 parts are of a dirty white, thickly spotted on the throat 

 with dark brown longitudinal marks, and on the cross 

 and flanks with the same shaped spots of russet brown; 

 feet, beak, and iris brown. 



Temminck says that the young differ from the adult 

 by the large borders of clear isabelle colour, which mark 

 all the feathers of the upper parts of the body; the 

 black spots of the inferior parts are larger than in the 

 adult. It is only seven inches long. 



My figure of this bird is from a specimen sent me 

 by Mr. Tristram, marked "Waregla, Dec, 1856, (?." 

 The egg is the one alluded to in the quotation I have 

 made from that gentleman's paper in the "Ibis." 



The bird has also been figured by Vieillot, Faun. 

 Franc, p. 173, pi. 76, fig. 2; E.oux, Ornith. Prov., vol. i, 

 p. 285, pi. 186; Werner, Atlas du Manuel. 



