FRINGILLIDZ. — ALAUDINA. 2903 
slender. Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Lateral 
toes equal, but the outer claw shorter than the inner. 
Colour brown: lark-like. Distribution universal.. 
The insessorial or pre-eminent type. 
rufescens. P. E. 661.f. 1. bistrigata and Australis. Part 5. 
No. 107, 108. 
_ Macronyx, Sw. (fig. 267.) Bill slen- 
der, compressed, thrush-like, entire. ae 
Nostrils large, naked, the aperture 975% 
lateral. Wings short; the pri. <<~—— = 
maries not longer than the tertials, 
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the four first of equal length; secondaries long, 
emarginate. Tail moderate, even. Feet enormous. 
Tarsus and hinder toe very long, and of equal length. 
_ Lateral toes unequal, the inner shortest. Africa. The 
rasorial type. 
M. flavicollis. O. d’A.pl.195. flavigaster. Sw. W. A. i. 215. | 
Crertrninaupa, Sw. Bill slender, lengthened, more or 
less curved. Nostrils round, naked. Wings very 
long ; the first quill spurious; the three next nearly 
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equal. Tail moderate, even. Feet lengthened. The 
lateral toes equal. Length of the hinder claw variable, 
although typically short and straight. Africa. The 
tenuirostral type. (fig. 208.) 
longirostra. Ois. d’Af. 192. nivosa. West. Af. i. 213 
bifasciata. Rupp. Atlas, pl. 5. 
Suzram. PYRRHULINE. Bulfinches. 
Bill very short, thick, entire: the upper mandible 
arched both on the culmen and commissure. Wings 
‘with the four first quills of nearly equal length. 
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