310 LARK. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; only seen in the winter ; has every 

 character of the Lark, and the usual manners of the Genus ; but the 

 hind claw is more curved than in many of the species. — In the 

 collection of Mr. Francillon. 



51.— NEW-ZEALAND LARK — Pl. cm. 



Alauda novae Zealandise, Ind. Orn. ii. 497. Gm. Lin. i. 799. 



New-Zealand Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 384. pl. 51. Shaw's Zool. x. 532. pl. 43. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill half an inch, pale ash- 

 colour, with the upper part black ; plumage above dusky, the feathers 

 edged with pale ash-colour ; over the eye a white streak ; through 

 the eye another of mottled black ; fore part of the neck as the back, 

 but much paler; breast and belly white ; vent pale ash-colour; legs 

 reddish, claws black, the hind one almost straight, and half an 

 inch in length. 



Inhabits Charlotte Sound, and called Kogoo aroure. 



A. — Alauda nova? Zealandise, Ind. Orn. ii. 497. 19. |S. 

 Cinereous Lark, Portlock's Voy. pl. p. 38. 

 Dixon's Lark, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 228. 



Size of the Titlark ; length six inches. Bill and legs black ; 

 upper parts of the body ash-colour, the under the same, but very 

 pale, inclining to white near the vent; quills and tail black, the 

 outer edges of the quills and outer tail feathers white. 



Inhabits New-Zealand ; and except in being smaller, is a mere 

 Variety of the last described. 



