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though scarcely expressible in words : a more available distinction con- 

 sists in the flanks being streakless, whereas in the preceding species 

 they are conspicuously streaked throughout ; and the wing-edgings are 

 also much more albescent. Length of wing three inches and three- 

 eighths ; of tail two and five-eighths ; bill to gape three-quarters ; 

 tarse an inch ; hind-claw half an inch. I obtained a single specimen 

 of this bird from a collection made at Darjeeling ; and Mr. Jerdon has 

 since procured several in the neighbourhood of Nellore, on the Coro- 

 mandel coast.* 



6. A. malayensis, Eyton : A. agilis apud Jerdon, Catal. ; A. pallescens 

 apud Sundevall.f Nearly allied to the last, but distinguished by its smaller 

 size, by the less contrasted streakings of the back, and especially of the 

 head, and by the fewer spots on the breast. In one specimen before me, 

 from Assam, the pectoral spots are so few, that the bird might be mistak- 

 en for A. rufulus. Length of wing commonly three inches and one-eighth, 

 sometimes less ; of tail two and a quarter ; bill to gape eleven six- 

 teenths of an inch ; tarse an inch ; long hind-claw commonly half an 

 inch. To facilitate comparison, I have given the admeasurement of 

 bill to gape from dry specimens, in which it is less than in the fresh 

 bird. The young have dark upper-parts, each dorsal feather being 

 narrowly margined round with whitish ; coverts and tertiaries the same ; 

 and the breast has many more spots than in the adult. In this dress, 

 the species presents more the appearance of a young Lark, than I have 

 seen in any other Pipit. It is one of the commonest birds of Lower 

 Bengal during the cold season, in all open places ; and a few remain 

 throughout the year : habits, much as in A. pratensis ; and song very 

 insignificant, a mere repetition of one note, as often mounting some forty 

 or fifty feet into the air, it descends sailing to the ground in the usual 

 manner of the birds of this genus. It also appears to be very generally 

 diffused throughout India, as well as in the countries eastward of the 



* In Mr. Gray's catalogue of Mr. Hodgson's specimens presented to the British 

 Museum, A. striolutus, Bl., is set down as a synonyme of A. rufescens; but it does not 

 appear upon what authority, and the species assuredly does not accord with the descrip- 

 tions of A. rufescens. A. pelopus, H., as described in Mr. Gray's appendix to that 

 catalogue, would seem to differ only in its shorter tarse. 



t Add Cichlops ubiquitarius , Hodgson, Gray, Zool. Misc. ; and a wearisome list of 

 other synonymes from the same source are corrected in Mr. Gray's catalogue cited in the 

 preceding note, which I cannot but think it much to be regretted were ever published. 



