306 LARK. 



45— OUNGHEE LARK. 



SIZE of the Titlark ; length five inches and a half, weight 

 twelve drachms and a half. Bill stout, flesh-colour, tip dusky ; 

 plumage above pale ash-colour, marked on the crown and back with 

 short pale dusky streaks ; over the eye, from the nostrils, a white 

 streak ; under parts cinereous white, inclining more to cinereous on 

 the breast; greater wing coverts and quills dusky, with pale cinereous 

 buff edges; tail much the same, the two middle feathers brown, the 

 others dusky ; one or more of the outer white on the outer web ; 

 shape rather forked ; legs pale, hind claw nearly straight, bent only 

 at the tip ; the wings reach half way on the tail. 



Inhabits India, named Ounghee. — A second, not unlike, but 

 smaller, had the bill somewhat more elongated, pale straw-colour ; 

 plumage above the same, but somewhat paler; and the under parts 

 of the body dusky white ; tail shorter, irregular at the end, two of 

 the outer feathers white ; the white line over the eye less conspicuous. 



Inhabits India. — Probably a young bird of the former. 



46.— WAGTAIL LARK. 



LENGTH nearly six inches ; shape delicate. Bill slender, 

 dusky; plumage in general above plain dull olive-brown; over the 

 eye, from the nostrils, a white streak ; chin, throat, breast, and 

 thighs, white ; belly and vent pale buff-colour ; on the breast a few 

 dusky, cinereous, pale, markings; wings as the back, the feathers 

 margined with dusky white ; tail two inches long, brown, even, the 

 two outer feathers white ; legs black, hind claw long, but bent. 

 The other sex much the same, but the streak over the eye inclines 

 to yellow ; all beneath pale buff, except the chin and thighs, which 

 are white ; the outer tail feathers pale buff-colour. 



Inhabits India ; met with at Cawnpore in September. 



