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GRANIVORJ^.. 



Fmnily ALAUBID^. 



Genus Alauda. ( Linnceus.) 



DUPONT'S LARK. 



Alauda Dii.pontii. 



Alauda DuponfM,. 



" ferruginea, 

 Certhilaucla Duponti, 



Alouette Dapont, 

 DiifonVs Lercke, 



ViEJLLOT; Faim. Fr., 



p. 173, (1828.) 

 Temminck; Man. (1835.) 

 Lesson. Schinz. 



SCHLEGEL. DeGLAND. 



Mtjiile (?) Orn. Griecli, 



p. 35. 

 Bonaparte; Consp. Av., 



p. 246. 

 Tristram; Ibis, vol. i., 



p. 427. 

 LocnE; Cat., p. 85. 

 Of the Frenc:h. 

 Oe the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Beak as long as the lieacl, and distinctly 

 curved. Two outer tail feathers white, with a dusky band on the 

 inner web; the second brown black, with the outer web white. 

 Hinder claw shorter than the toe, and distinctly curved. 



Length of male sent me by Mr. Tristram, which is figured, six 

 inches and three-quarters; from carpus to tip four inches; tail 

 two inches and a half; beak seven-eighths of an inch; tarsus one 

 inch; hinder claw three-eighths of an inch; hinder toe half an 

 inch. 



