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LOUISIANE LARK. 

 ( Alauda ludoviciana.) 



Al.Jusco nigricans suUus fulva, jugulo pectoreque Jlavescente- 



griseiSf pectore fusco maculato. 

 Dusky-brown Lark, beneath fulvous, with the jugulum and 



breast yellowish-grey, the latter spotted with fuscous. 

 Alauda ludoviciana. Gmel. Syst, Nat» 1. 793. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 



2. 494. 9. 



La Farlouzanne. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois. 5, 38. 

 Louisiane Lark. Lath. Ge?t, Syn, 4. 37^. 7« 



Larger than Alauda agrestis, which it greatly 

 resembles : it is seven inches in length : the upper 

 parts of its body are varied with greenish and 

 dusky brown: the wing-coverts and quills are 

 blackish brown, bordered with paler brown : the 

 throat, neck, and breast yellowish grey, the two 

 latter spotted with brown ; the rest of the under 

 parts fulvous : the outer tail-feather half brown, 

 half white, the next tipped with the latter colour, 

 and the rest of the tail plain brown. Inhabits 

 Louisiana. 



