40 Notices and Descriptions of various New [No. 169. 



the third, E. aureola, is common also in Tipperah and Arracan ; and the 

 fourth, I greatly suspect, is E. pusilla, Pallas, and certainly the same 

 as that described from a female specimen in XIII, 958, by the name E. 

 sordida, Hodgson. I add the description of a male, which I lately 

 saw from Darjeeling. 



E. pusilla (?), Pallas. Length about five inches and a half, wing 

 two inches and three- eighths, and outermost tail-feather two and a 

 quarter ; the tail forked to the depth of five- sixteenths of an inch : bill 

 to forehead three- eighths, and tarse above five- eighths, of an inch. 

 Upper-parts streaky, the feathers black-centred, set off with rufous, and 

 this margined with greyish-brown ; the rufous colour more developed on 

 the scapularies and rump : crown, lores, and ear-coverts, rufous ; super- 

 cilium and chin pale rufescent, and above the supercilium is a broad 

 black streak, the feathers of which are slightly rufous- edged : wings 

 dusky, the feathers externally margined with ruddy-olive, and tipped 

 paler : tail having a broad oblique white streak on the outermost 

 feather, and a narrow one on the penultimate : lower- parts whitish, with 

 a dusky line on each side of the throat, and streaks of the same on the 

 breast and flanks. Bill horn- coloured, and legs pale. This species is 

 somewhat allied to E.fucata, Pallas.* 



Alaudina. Alauda raytal, Buch. Ham., nobis, XIII, 962. This bird 

 abounds on the white sand-dunes of the Hooghly, where the stream, un- 

 checked by the tide, deposits only fine sand, and the alluvial country 

 round (from this cause) is everywhere light and arenaceous : this Sand 

 Lark being scarcely ever seen except on the flat deposits of white sand 

 within each bend of the stream ; but there they are very numerous, 

 and (as usual) their colour approximates that of the surface. Fine 

 specimens measure five inches and five-eighths, by ten inches ; wing 

 three and a quarter ; and tail two inches : bill to gape five- eighths, 

 and tarse three-quarters of an inch ; toes short, the hind -claw 



* Loxia Jlavicans, var. A., Latham, =Emb. icterica, Eversh. : his Emb. luteola is 

 perhaps the female of E. melanocephala, but agrees with that of E. aureola : his 

 ' Goura Finch' is E. Lathami (v. melanictera?) : his Fringilla butyracea, L., is 

 Crithagra chrysopogon, Sw. ('Birds of W. Africa'), which is occasionally brought 

 alive to India from the Mauritius, and kept as a cage-bird : Fringilla stulta, Ind. 

 var., is doubtless Gymnoris jlavicollis : and his Loxia totta and madagascariensis of 

 India, =Car pod acus erythrinus, as was long ago pointed out by Mr. Jerdon. 



