LARK. 287 



Inhabits India, called Beksi.— From the drawings of Sir John 

 Anstruther, Bart. A second of these, supposed to be the female, 

 is bluish grey about the head ; back and wings brown, the latter 

 edged with blue grey ; under parts dirty white, with dusky marks 

 on the bend of the wing; sides of the breast pale rufous; rump and 

 upper tail coverts as in the other ; quills and tail dusky ; bill and 

 legs brown, hind claw very little bent, but more so than in the other ; 

 the tail hollowed out in the middle. 



B. — In the same drawings is a further Variety ; length six inches. 

 Bill rather stout, black, with a yellow base; plumage pale brown, 

 beneath white ; wings and tail dusky black ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts pale red ; legs dusky black. 



Inhabits India, called Shurriah. 



20.— BLACK LARK. 



Alauda Tatarica, Ind. Orn. ii. 496. Gm. Lin. i. 795. Pall. It. ii. 707. 15. t. C. 



Tern. Man. d'Orn. 157. Id. Ed. ii. 275. Sonnin. Buf. xv. p. 18. 

 Alauda nigra, Falck, It. iii. 393. t. 27. 



Tanagia Sibirica, Gm.LinA. 899. Mus. Carls, fase. i. t. 19. 

 Black Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 380. Id. Sup. 177. Shaw's Zool. x. 511. 



SIZE of a Starling. Bill stout, of a yellowish horn-colour, 

 with a brown tip ; nostrils covered with hairy feathers ; plumage in 

 general dusky black ; the feathers of the head and neck edged with 

 dusky white ; upper parts of the body the same, but edged deeper 

 with white ; quills black, cordated at the tips; tail somewhat forked 

 in shape; the two middle feathers black, with pale margins; the 

 next adjoining pale on the edge at the tip, all the others black ; legs 

 black, the hind claw long, sharp, and pretty straight. 



