LARK. .309 



One answering to this description, in the drawings of Oieneral 

 Hardvvicke, said to weigh nine drachms and a half, met with in 

 April ; quills and tail dusky, deeply edged with very pale chestnut, 

 or buff-colour; as are also most of the feathers of the back and wing 

 coverts ; bill and legs dirty flesh-colour. 



In the same drawings is one called Aaghin ; met with in August. 

 It is four inches and a half long; bill stout, pale dusky above, 

 whitish beneath ; feathers of all the upper parts largely marked in 

 the middle with dusky, appearing spotted ; the same across the 

 breast; over the eye a flesh-coloured trace ; chin, belly, thighs, and 

 vent, reddish white ; second quills and large coverts brown, with 

 pale margins ; greater quills pale rufous ; tail brown, no appearance 

 of white on the outer feathers; legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits India. Probably an Aggia Lark in some of its stages 

 towards the adult state. 



50— NEW-HOLLAND LARK. 



SIZE of the Skylark ; length seven inches. Bill dusky ; irides 

 hazel ; plumage in general above pale brown, the feathers darker 

 in the middle ; beneath dusky white, with a few dusky streaks on 

 the breast, and obscurely marked with the same; as also the under 

 wing coverts, thighs, and vent ; quills black ; tail even at the end, 

 brown ; the outer feather wholly white on the outer web, with a 

 brown shaft ; and a great part of the inner to one-third from the 

 point, where it is wholly white; the second the same, but with more 

 white ; all the rest dusky black, but the third has a white streak at 

 the tip ; legs pale. 



The female has the head and neck alike as far as the breast, but 

 the fore parts paler; from thence to the vent white; the other 

 markings much the same, but the whole darker. 



