9 



6-25 



3-60 



0-60 



2-05 



053 



0-86 



075 



rt 



6-10 



3 65 



0-62 



2 16 



.053 



0-81 



0-72 



df 



6-00 



3-57 



0-80 



200 



057 



0-86 



0.75 



315 



038 



1-75 



045 



0-70 



0"64 



326 



040 



1-85 



0-43 



0-72 



065 



3-00 



0-12 



1-70 



0-50 



070 



0-68 



120 Observations regarding some species of birds. [No. 2, 



I proceed to give some dimensions of the Southern and Northern 

 Indian races, premising that to the latter I have given the specific 

 name of simillima. 



length, wing, 1st prim, tail, bill at tarsus, hind toe and 



front, claw, 



8. Deva, 



(Southerr. 



India.) 



S. simillima, $ 5 - 20 



(Northern $ 5*50 



India.) $ 520 



The plumage of the two species is of precisely the same character, 

 but the colouring of the Upper Indian bird is paler and less 

 rufous, and this is especially conspicuous in the outer webs of 

 the first long primaries and exterior tail feathers, which are 

 rufous buff in Deva, and pale fawn colour or yellowish white in 

 simillima, and in the wing lining and rufous margins to the interior 

 webs of the quills. Altogether the bird has a paler and sandier 

 cast, so much so, that the first glance at the birds is sufficient to 

 attract the attention of even a superficial observer to the difference. 

 The crest of the adult Northern bird too is, I think, longer than that 

 of the Southern, some of the feathers of the former measuring fully 

 0*9" in length. This bird bears the same relation (so far as type of 

 colour goes) to S. Deva, than A. gulgida does to A. Malabarica. 



Spizalauda simillima occurs throughout the upper portion of the 

 N. "W. Provinces and Cis-Sutledge States of the Panjab, and I have 

 specimens sent me from Jhansee ; but what the limits of its range 

 are, I do not yet know, having until recently always confounded it 

 with 8. Deva. 



I may here note that Capt. Mitchell of Madras sent me speci- 

 mens of Alauda Malabarica from Ootacamund labelled A. gulgida ; 

 accepting his name and noticing the striking difference in appear- 

 ance between these birds and our northern representative race, I 

 separated the latter, as A. gidgulcnsis, (ride my Catalogue), but 

 subsequent careful examination has shown me that the Ootacamund 

 birds are really A. Malabarica, while our northern race is the true 

 A . gulgida of Franklin. 



From this it will appear that Mr. B 1 a n f o r d ' s bird, having 

 the hind toe claw only 0-4, cannot be identified with Alauda Mala- 



