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LARK. 



GENUS XLVII —LARK. 



1 Skylark 



19 Red-backed 



36 Clapper 



A White 



A Var. 



37 Gingi 



B Black 



B Var. 



A Var. 



2 Italian 



20 Black 



38 Desert 



3 Wood 



A Mutable 



39 Short-toed 



4 Crested 



B Trucal 



40 Yellow-headed 



5 Undated 



21 Yeltonian 



41 Jelli 



6 Lesser crested 



22 Calandre 



42 Crested Calandre 



7 Field 



A White-winged 



43 Slender 



8 Pasture 



23 Javan • 



44 Agile 



9 Tit 



24 Mongolian 



45 Ounghee 



A Var. 



25 Cape 



46 Wagtail 



B Var. 



A Centinel 



47 Baag-geyra 



10 Pipit 



26 Richard's 



4S Finch-billed 



11 Rock 



27 Cinereous 



49 Aggia 



12 Red 



28 African 



50 New-Holland 



A Var. 



29 Great-billed 



51 New-Zealand 



13 Marsh 



30 Rufous-hooded 



A Dixon's 



14 Testaceous 



31 Rufous-headed 



52 Shore 



15 Portugal 



32 Ferruginous 



A Black-breasted 



16 Meadow 



33 Tawny 



53 Louisiane 



17 Spinoletta 



34 Senegal 



54 Rufous-backed 



18 Sparrow 



35 Malabar 



1 55 Rufous 



A HE bill in this Genus is straight, slender, for the most part a 

 little bending towards the end, sharp-pointed ; nostrils covered with 

 feathers and bristles. 



Tongue cloven at the end. 



Toes divided to their origin ; claw of the back toe very long, and 

 either straight, or very little bent. 



The above characters will answer for the greater part of the 

 species here recorded, yet a slight deviation will be observed in some 

 few, and cannot fail of being the case in respect to other genera, in 

 proportion as they become numerous ; when, however, the material 



