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GRANIVOR^. 



Family ALAUDIBJE. 



Genus Alauda. ( Linnceus.) 



SIBERIAN LAEK. 



Alauda Sihirica. 



Alauda Sihirica, 



" calanclra ajfinis, 

 " leucoptera, 



FJuleremos Siherica, 



JMelanocuryplia, leucoptera, 

 Alouette de Siherie, 

 Sibirische Lerche, 



Gmelin; Syst., (1788.) 



SCHLEGEL; (1844.) 



Degland; (1849.) 

 Pallas; Iter. App., Wo. 15. 

 Latham; Ind. 

 Pallas; Zoog. i, p. 518, 



No. 147, pi. 33, f. 2. 

 Blakistojn', in "Zoologist," 



vol. XV, p. 5509. 

 Ketserling and Blasius; 



Die Wirbelt, p. 37, (1840.) 

 Bonaparte. 

 Of the French. 

 Op the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — First primary longest, but nearly equal to 

 second; third about as mueli shorter than the second as the fifth 

 is less than the fourth; the fourth seven-tenths of an inch shorter 

 than the third. Tail very narrow, the outer feathers white; hinder 

 claw one-fifth longer than the toe. 



Length eight inches and one-fifth; carpus to tip four inches and 

 seven- tenths; beak three-fifths of an inch long by three-tenths 

 broad; hind claw half an inch to two-fifths of an inch long. 



