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ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL. 



and cinnamon ; tertiaries darkened on the inner web ; forehead furnished 

 with an elongated, slender, mobile, crest ; bill and legs fleshy brown ; iris 

 dark brown : 6^ inches by 10, and 1 oz in weight. 



Female has the crest smaller and the bill and feet duller hued : above 

 she is dusky brown edged with grey ; below, rufescent white, streaked 

 lengthwise with dusky ; quills and tail feathers dusky-brown, more or less 

 edged externally with dull cinnamon, and showing that hue internally and 

 basally on the quills almost as clearly as in the male : size nearly equal to 

 his. The species is gregarious in small flocks ; feeds on small hard seeds 

 and grains solely, and chiefly frequents the hedge rows and brushwood of 

 the upland downs and meadows. In Winter, common in the central region : 

 in Summer, resorts to the northern. 



Genus new. Fringalanda, Lark Finch, nobis. 

 Bill as in Fringilla but smaller; perfectly conic, intire, straight and 

 pointed ; tomioe of the lower mandible inflexedand scarpt towards the gape, 

 but without angulation or salient process ; palate well scooped out and 

 smooth ; wings very long, passing the center of the tail ; 2nd longest ; 1 st 

 and 3rd subequal; tertiaries truncated and square ; much short of primaries ; 

 tail longish, firm, slightly but distinctly forked. 



Tarsi submedial, finely scaled ; toes compressed and slender ; the 

 laterals and hind subequal ; outer connected to the joint. 



Nails long, slender, acute, straightish ; hind largest, less the toe. 



Nares oval, lateral, shaded above by membrane and hid by small hairs. 

 Species neiv. F. Nemoricola. Forest-haunting Lark Finch, nobis. 



Form has been detailed above. 



Colour and size : — above dusky brown, edged with rufous, as in so 

 many of the Larks ; below, sordid earthly grey ; or grey brown, paler as 

 yon descend the body ; long tail coverts, above blackish with white tips, 

 below, white wiil» dusky centres ; remiges and rectrices dusky ; the long 

 wing coverts and the tertiaries, with broad edging of rufous or white colour ; 

 bill and legs fleshy brown ; iris red brown ; sexes exactly alike : size Qh 

 by \\^, and 1 ounce in weight. 



