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47.— BAAG-GEYRA LARK. 



SIZE of the Titlark ; length five inches and a half. Bill short, 

 rather stout, pale, with the ridge and tip dusky; plumage above 

 brownish clay-colour, with dusky streaks ; beneath buff white, 

 inclining to clay on the breast ; on each side of which is a blackish 

 mark ; over the eye a clay-coloured streak ; chin and thighs white ; 

 second quills as the back, the greater dusky ; several of the 

 inner ones appear as if cut off at the tip ; tail a trifle hollowed at the 

 end, brown, the edges of the feathers margined with buff"; the two 

 outer feathers white on the outer webs ; legs flesh-colour, hind claw 

 moderate. — Inhabits India. — General Hardwicke. 



In the same collection is another, a trifle larger, much the same 

 as to markings, but the dusky streaks less observable, and fewer. 

 This is no doubt allied to the other, and called Baag-geyra. 



48.— FINCH LARK. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill stout, made like that of a 

 Finch, flesh-coloured, the upper edge dusky; irides hazel ; plumage 

 above pale ash, streaked with dusky on the crown and back; sides 

 of the head, and beneath, pale clay, or buff-colour; feathers of the 

 wings edged with the latter ; greater quills margined with pale fer- 

 ruginous; tail as the quills, somewhat hollowed out at the end, one 

 inch and and three quarters long ; legs pale brownish red, hind toe 

 and claw long, the latter pretty much bent; the quills reach three- 

 fourths on the tail. 



Inhabits India ; found at Cawnpore in April. 



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