PLATE CXLVIIL 



ALAUDA MINOR. 

 FIELD-LARK, 



Passeres. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Bill cylindrical, fabulate, and flraight : the mandibles equal, and a 

 little gaping at the bafe : tongue bifid : pofterior claw flraight, an<f 

 longer than the toe, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Reddifh brown, fpotted beneath: chin and belly white: throat 

 and breaft obfcure yellow : exterior edge of the two outer tail fca» 

 thers white. 



Alaudaminor: ex rufefcente fufca, reftricibus extimis duabus 



extrorfum albis. Gmel. Linn, Syjl, Nat, t, 1. 



p. 2, p, 795. n, IS. 

 Alauda minor : rubro-fufca fubtus maculata, gula abdomineque 



albis_, jugulo peftoreque obfcure flavefcentibus. 



Lath. Ind, Orn, 2. p, 494<. &. 

 Lesser Field Lark. Will. Orn. p. 207. 

 Field Lark. Ar6l, Zosl, 2,p, S95. D. 

 Mrit, ZooL 'No, 139. 



Inferior 



