MALABAR LARK. 



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black, which ends at a small distance below the 

 ears : the throat and fore-part of the neck are pale 

 yellow ; the latter is varied with a broad band of 

 black: all the rest of the under parts are pale 

 yellow : the tail-coverts are pale rust-colour : the 

 tail itself and wings are similar in colour to the 

 upper parts of the body, with their edges rather 

 paler : claws black : the female differs slightly 

 from the male, having the back grey, with the 

 shafts of each feather darker brown than in him, 

 and the crown is not black, but dusky. 



MALABAR LARK, 

 (Alauda Malabarica.) 



^Al. fusca pennis rufo marginatis, apice albo maculatis, collo 



riifescente maculis sagittatis nigris. 

 Brown Lark, with the feathers edged with rufous and tipped 



with white, the neck reddish, spotted with black arrow-shaped 



marks. 



Alauda malabarica. GmeL Syst. Nat, l. 795. — Lath. Ind, Orn. 

 2. 495. 13. 



L'Alouette hupp^e de la cote de Malabar. Sonner, Voy. Ind, 



2. 103.pl. 113./ 1. 

 Malabar Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 379. 1 L 



Inhabits the Malabar coast : length above five 

 inches and a half: the beak is black : the feathers 

 on the crown of the head are brown, tipped with 

 white : back and wing-coverts brown, edged with 



