278 LARK. 



A. — Bill and legs pale; the plumage in general pale cinereous 

 brown ; over the eye a white streak ; chin white, streaked with a 

 line of fine brown dots ; the breast spotted ; under parts of the body 

 paler than the upper, marked with dusky streaks ; the wing coverts 

 brown, margined with white ; quills brown ; upper tail coverts very 

 long, reaching to the middle of the tail, which is brown ; and all, 

 except the two middle feathers, margined with white ; the under tail 

 coverts long, and white; hind claw long, and very little curved. 



Inhabits India, called Mushtaki ; frequents corn fields, and has 

 the habit of a Wagtail : found also at Sumatra, called there Lancha 

 Lancha, or Hamba Puyu.* 



B. — In the Collection of Mr. Francillon was one, sent from Mr. 

 Abbot, of Savannah, in Georgia, somewhat larger than the European 

 one, but answering in so many particulars, as to give cause for 

 thinking it the same, or a very slight Variety. It is there called the 

 Brown Lark. 



C. — A third Variety is also mentioned by Sir Thomas Raffles, as 

 inhabiting Sumatra, by the name of Letti Letti; it is said to be 

 smaller, brownish above, and yellow beneath. 



10— PIPIT LARK. 



Alauda trivialis, Ind. Orn. ii. 493. Lin. i. p. 2S8. Gm. Lin. i. 796. Sepp, Vog. iii. 



t. 308. 

 Alauda sepiaria, Bris. iii. 349. Id. 8vo. i. 407. 

 Alouette pipi, Buf. v. 39. pi. 4. 

 Die Pieplerche, Frisch, t. 16. 2. a ? 

 Spipola vulgaris, Gerin. iv. t. 387. 2. 

 Pipit Lark, Br. Zool. Ed. 1812. i. p. 474. Alb. i. pi. 44. Collins' s Birds, pi. 7. f.5.6. 



Bewick, i. 181 ? Orn. Diet. Shaw's Zool. x. 542. 



THIS weighs more than five drachms ; length six inches and a 

 half. Bill dusky, sides and base of the upper mandible dull yellow ; 



* Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. 



