LARK. 313 



and quills blackish brown, the edges paler; throat yellowish grey; 

 neck and breast the same, spotted with brown ; the rest of the under 

 parts fulvous ; tail as the back, the outer feather half brown, half 

 white, the adjoining one tipped with white. 



Inhabits Louisiana, and seems to have great affinity both to the 

 Tit and Field Lark ; and such an one has been brought from North 

 America by General Davies, under the name of Titlark. 



54— RUFOUS-BACKED LARK. 



Alauda fulva, Ind. Orn. ii. 492. Gm. Lin. i. 792. 

 L'Alouette noire a Dosfauve, Buf. v. 23. PL enl. 738. 2. 

 L'Alouette a Dos rouge, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 149. 

 Rufous-backed Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 371. Shaw's Zool. x. 516. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill half an inch long, brown, the upper 

 mandible slightly notched at the tip ; head, legs, throat, neck before, 

 body beneath, and upper tail coverts blackish brown ; quills and tail 

 somewhat darker, the outer feather of the last edged with rufous; 

 hind part of the neck, the whole of the back, and scapulars rufous 

 orange ; lesser and middle wing coverts blackish, edged with fulvous. 



Inhabits Buenos Ayres. — M. Azara calls the rufous-orange by 

 the name of carmine red. 



55.— RUFOUS LARK. 



Alauda rufa, Ind. Orn. ii. 498. Gm. Lin. i. 79S. 



Petite Alouette de Buenos Ayres, Variole, Buf. v. 63. PL enl. 738. 1. 



Pipit, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxix. 



Le Chii, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 146 ? 



Rufous Lark, Gen. Syn. iv. 388. Shaw's Zool. x. 519. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter. Bill brown ; crown and 

 upper parts of the body blackish, mixed with various tints of rufous; 



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