276 LARK. 



8.— PASTURE LARK. 



SIZE of the Titlark, and not unlike it; length six inches. Bill 

 slender, five-eighths of an inch long, dusky; plumage above dusky 

 cinereous brown ; sides of the head and chin pale clay-colour; also just 

 round the eye; region of the ears ash-colour ; throat, and all beneath 

 dusky white, spotted on the breast and sides, with dashes of pale 

 ash ; thighs and vent plain ; wings as the back, the feathers with 

 pale margins ; greater quills dark; tail hollowed out in the middle, 

 the two centre feathers brown, the others dusky black, except the 

 two outer, which are white ; the tail two inches long, and the wings 

 reach about one-third from the base; legs black. 



Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. It seems to stand between 

 the Field and Titlark ; perhaps a mere Variety. 



9.— TITLARK. 



Alauda pratensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 493. Lin. i. 287. Faun. suec. No. 210. Gm. Lin. i. 



792. Brun. No. 223. Muller, No. 230. Frisch, t. 16. 2. A. Faun. arag. 84. 



Rati, 69. A. 3. Will. 150 § iv. Bris. iii. 343. Id. 8vo. i. 406. Borowsk. iii. 



198. Gerin. iv. t. 372. 2. Sepp, Fog. t. p. 209. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 315. 

 Antlius pratensis, Tern. Man. d'Orn. 152. Id. Ed. ii. 270. 

 Spipola altera Aldr. Raii, 84. 4. Will. 153. 



Alauda Stratorum, Klein, 13. t. 15. 2. a— c. Id. Ov. 24. t. 9. 4. 

 Alouette de Pres, Buf. v. 31. pi. 3. PL enl. 660. 1, Hist. Prov. i. 504. 

 Mattolina, Zinnan. 55. t. 8. 44. Id. 50. t. 7. 37. Cett. Uc. Sard. 158 ? 

 La Correndera, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 145 ?* 

 Titlark, Gen. Syn. iv. 374. Br. Zool. No. 138. Id.fol. 94. pi. Q. fig. 6. & P. 1. 3. 



Var. Id. Ed. 1812. i. 481. Arct. Zool. ii. 395. C. Will. Engl. p. 206. 210 ? 



* I am doubtful in this quotation, for comparing it with the Titlark, some difference 

 appears between them : yet I have been assured by the late General Davies, that he found 

 the Titlark in America, and therefore Azara's bird may be a slight Variety. 



