LARK. 295 



brown, the feathers deeper in the middle, with the edges and tips 

 paler ; a streak over the eyes ; the throat and belly white ; breast 

 very light rufous, with a broad band of lance-shaped spots ; sides 

 pale rufous ; wings and tail blackish, edged with yellowish white; 

 outer tail feather wholly white; on the adjoining one, a large conical 

 white spot ; legs yellowish ; length of the hind toe and claw one inch. 

 Inhabits the warmer parts of Europe, towards the Pyrenees, and 

 probably in Spain. Mr. Temminck likens it to the Cape Lark, or 

 Centinelle of Levaillant, and thinks it not improbable, that it may 

 prove to be our Portugal Lark ; but for the present, he records it as 

 distinct. 



27.— CINEREOUS LARK. 



Alauda cinevea, Ind. Orn.'n. 499. 



La Cendrille, Biif. v. 64. 



Cinereous Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 388. Shaw's Zool. x. 524. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill three quarters of an inch; nostrils 

 in a soft membranous furrow, but the aperture very small and round ; 

 plumage above ash-colour ; quills and tail dark brown ; belly and 

 vent white ; the outer tail feather white on the outside near the tip ; 

 legs dusky. 



In the Leverian Museum. — From whence uncertain. Buffon 

 describes one, sent to him from the Cape of Good Hope, which was 

 probably the male. In this the top of the head is rufous, forming a 

 kind of hood, bordered, from the bill to beyond the eye, with white; 

 quills and tail black. 



28— AFRICAN LARK. 



Alauda Africana, Ind. Om. ii. 499. Gm. Lin. i. 798. 



Le Sirli du Cap de B. Esp. Buf. v. 65. PI. enl. 712. Levaih Afr. iv. 125. pi. 192. 



