292 LARK. 



23— JAVAN LARK. 



Mivafra Javanica, Lin. Trans, xiii. 159. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill stout, attenuated, and 

 somewhat compressed ; nostrils at the base, covered above with a 

 membrane; plumage above brown, varied with ferruginous; beneath 

 dusky ; axillaries pale bay ; wings shorter than the tail ; hind toe 

 much elongated, the claw twice as long as any of the others, and 

 moderately bent. 



Inhabits Java, and there called Branjangan. Dr. Horsfield 

 observes, that although it greatly resembles the Calandre Species ; 

 it differs from it in some of the characters of the wing, and in respect 

 to the bill, it has a greater affinity to the Finch Genus. 



24.—MONGOLIAN LARK. 



Alauda Mongolica, Ind. Orn. ii. 497. Gm. Lin. i. 799. Pall. It. iii. 697. Act. Stock. 



1778. 3. 6. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 277. 

 Mongolian Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 384. Shaiifs Zool. x. 51G. 



THIS is bigger than the Calandre, but not unlike it. Bill stout; 

 head and neck ferruginous, deeper on the crown, which is encircled 

 with white, and has a spot in the middle of it ; on the throat a large 

 bifid patch of black. 



Inhabits the salt meadows, between the rivers Argun and Onon, 

 on the Chinese frontiers ; has a sweet song, and is for the most part 

 seen on the ground. Probably a Variety of the Calandre. 



