524 CINEREOUS LARK. 



Common in marshy places in many parts of 

 Germany, particularly in Alsace, and the borders 

 of the river Moselle, in the neighbourhood of 

 Metz, in the autumn : it is said to be a very 

 charming songster : its length is six inches and a 

 quarter : the entire plumage inclines to rufous ; 

 on the top of the head, and upper parts of the 

 neck and body, varied with brown : beneath the 

 eye are three stripes of brown : the sides of the 

 head and throat pale rufous : the breast and thighs 

 rufous, the former striped with brown ; the rest 

 of the under parts rufous white : tail dusky brown, 

 with rufous edges : beak, legs, and claws, yel- 

 lowish. 



CINEREOUS LARK. 

 (Alauda cinerea.) 



Al. cinerea^ abdomine albo, remigibus rectricibusque Juscis, reC' 



trice extima extus apice alba. 

 Cinereous Lark,, with the abdomen white, the quills and tail 



brown, the outer feather of the latter tipped with white on 



the exterior edge. 

 Alauda cinerea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 798' — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



499. 23. 



Cinereous Lark. Lath. Gen, Syn. 4. 388. 21. 



Locality unknown, but supposed to be from 

 the Cape of Good Hope : it was described by Dr. 

 Latham from a specimen in the late Leverian 



