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NEW ZEALAND LARK. 



pale 'rufous, and marked with a small white spot 

 at the tip of each feather: quills dirty brown, 

 edged with pale rufous : the neck pale rufous, 

 with each feather black on the shafts : the throat 

 and belly rufous white : the tail similar to the 

 quills : legs pale rufous. 



NEW ZEALAND LARK. 

 ( Alauda novae Zaelandiae. ) 



Al, obscura pennis cinerascente marginatis, abdomine, superciliis- 

 que albiSfJhscia oculmi nigra. 



Obscure Lark, with the feathers edged with greyish, the ab- 

 domen and eyebrows white, and a black band near the eye. 



Alauda novoe Zealandise. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 497. 19' 



Alauda novae Seelandiae. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 799. 



New Zealand Lark. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 384. i7.pl. 51. 



Said by Dr. Latham to be in length seven 

 inches and a half: beak half an inch, pale ash- 

 colour, with the upper part black : the upper 

 parts of the body are dusky, edged with pale ash- 

 colour: above the eye a white streak; through 

 the eye one of mottled black : fore-part of the 

 neck marked as the upper parts, but much paler : 

 breast and belly white : vent pale cinereous : legs 

 reddish ash-colour : claws black ; hind one almost 

 straight, and half an inch in length. Inhabits 

 Charlotte Sound, and called Kogoo aroure." 



