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those immediately impending the secondary quills 

 have whitish tips, making a small bar across the 

 wing ; one row also of the smaller coverts is 

 tipped with white, making another line of that 

 colour across the superior part of the wing: the 

 two middle feathers of the tail are dusky, deeply 

 margined • with rufous brown; the outer feather 

 is white, the next is w^hite on the exterior web, 

 and part of the inner web towards the tip : the 

 shaft dusky ; the rest are dusky : legs yellowish 

 brown : hind claws as long as the toe, and some- 

 what curved." 



RUFOUS LARK. 

 (Alauda rufa.) 



Al. nigricans riifo nebulosa, corpore subtus gulaque albis, rec- 



fricibus duabus extimis albo marginatis. 

 Dusky Lark, clouded with rufous, with the body beneath and 



the throat white, the two outer tail-feathers edged with white. 

 Alauda rufa. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1. 798. — Lath, hid, Orn. 2. 498. 



22. 



Variole. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 5. 63. 



Petite alouette de Cuenos Ayres. Buff. PI. Enl. 738./ ]. 



Rufous Lark. Lath. Gen. S^n. 4. 388. 20. 



The Rufous Lark is five inches and upwards 

 in length : its beak and legs are brownish : the 

 crown of the head and upper parts of the plumage 

 dusky, varied with rufous: the greater quills grey, 

 the lesser brown, all bordered with rufous : the 



