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WHITE-WINGED LARK. 



A variety of this species frequents the country 

 about Astrachan in the winter, and towards the 

 spring retires to the most sequestered places near 

 the Volga : it is rather smaller in size than the 

 first described, but in other respects it approaches 

 very near to that bird, having the whole plumage 

 black, with the edges of the feathers on the hind 

 part of the neck and back hoary : the quills and 

 tail are tipped with brown, the latter slightly 

 forked, and the outer feathers not brown at the 

 tip : legs and claws black : the female has the 

 forehead hoary ; the plumage of the young in» 

 clines to ferruginous. 



WHITE-WINGED LARK, 

 (Alauda Sibirica.) 



Al. fiam-ferruginea suhtus albida, jugulo ferrugineo mrio, re- 



migibus secundariis maxima parte albis. 

 Rusty-yellow Lark, beneath whitish, with the jugulum varied 



with ferruginous, and the greater part of the secondary quills 



white. 



Alauda sibirica. Gmel. Sj/st. Nat. 1. 799. — PnlL It. 2. 708. 15. 

 Alauda Calandra. jS. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 497. 17. 

 White-winged Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 353. 



Plentiful in the vicinity of the river Irtis, in 

 Siberia, and is probably a variety of the preceding 

 species: its size is the same as that bird : its beak 



