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GRANIVOH^. 



Family ALA UDIDJE. 



Genus Alaiida. (Linnceus.) 



SIBERIAN LARK. 



Alauda sibirica. 



Alaucla sihtrica, 



(< a 



C( (C 



" calandra affinis, 

 '* leiicoptera, 



PJdleremos siberica. 



Melamocoryplia leucoptera, 

 Alouette de Siherie, 

 Sibirische Lerche, 



Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 



schlegel; 1844. 



Degland; 1849. 



Pallas; Iter. App., No. 15. 



Latham; Ind. 



Pallas; Zoog., i, p. 518, 



No. 147, pi. 33, f. 2. 

 Blakiston, in "Zoologist," 



vol. ST, p. 5509. 

 Keyseeling and Blasids; 



Die Wirbelt, p. 37, 1840. 

 bonapakte. 

 Of the Fkench. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — First primary longest, but nearly equal to 

 second; third about as niucli shorter than the second as the fifth 

 is less than the fourth; the fourth seven tenths of an inch shorter 

 than the third. Tail very narrow, the outer feathers white; hinder 

 claw one fifth longer than the toe. 



Length eight inches and one fifth ; carpus to tip four inches and 

 seven tenths; beak three fifths of an inch long by three tenths 

 broad; hind claw half an inch to two fifths of an inch long. 



