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TESTACEOUS LARK. 

 (Alauda testacea.) 



Al. testacea suhtus albida, vertice tectricibusque alarum nigrO 

 maculatis, rectricibus quatuor exterioribus testaceo-albis. 



Testaceous Lark, beneath whitish, with the crown and wing- 

 coverts spotted with black, and tlie four outer tail-feathers of 

 a testaceous white. 



Alauda testacea. Gmel, Si/st. Nat, I. 798. — Lath, Lid, Orn. 1, 

 500. 29. 



Testaceous Lark. Lath. Gen, Sijn, 4. 393. 27* 



Dr. Latham, on the authority of Mr. Pennant, 

 describes this species as a native of Gibraltar : its 

 " beak is black : the upper parts of the body tes- 

 taceous : crown of the head dashed with black : 

 the wing-coverts marked with the same: the under 

 parts of the body testaceous white : quills dusky ; 

 the secondaries deeply margined with testaceous ; 

 the edges of the greater pale : four of the middle 

 tail-feathers marked as the quills ; the others tes- 

 taceous white : legs yellow : hind claw a trifle in- 

 curvated." 



