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ORNITHOLOGY, 
species never occurs either at Agra or anywhere else in 
the plains of India. It is essentially an Alpine bird. [^4. 0. HJ] 
766. Alauda triborhyncha, Hodson. (PL xxviii.) 
This species was very common in Ladak, many of the 
examples obtained in October were young birds^ with cha- 
racteristic pale edgings to the feathers of the head and 
back. [G. H.^ 
This bird is very distinct from the European Skylark; 
it would seem not to have yet been figured^ unless indeed 
gape, 0*65. Tarsus, 0.8 ; mid-toe to root of claw, 0-46 ; its claw 
straight from root to point, 0-27 ; hind toe, 0"3 ; its claw, 0"37. 
Description. — Bill, upper mandible and tip of lower, blackish brown. 
Kest of lower mandible bluish, tinged yellow towards the base. 
Plumage. — Male fresh moulted, killed 9th October. — Lores, narrow 
band on the forehead, a broad cheek stripe running partly down the sides 
of the neck, the whole of the upper breast, a bar across the front of the 
crown, and the streak on each side of the crown (some of the feathers of 
which are linear, pointed, and fully 0'6 in length), and a small streak 
under the eye joining into the cheek stripe — velvet black, the bar on the 
front of the crown above being partly obscured owing to the tips of the 
feathers being vinaceous ashy. Forehead, between the two black bands, 
a broad streak over the eye extending nearly to the nape, chin, throat, and 
a broad border round the black cheek stripe, abdomen, vent, lower tail- 
coverts, axillaries, wing lining, nearly the whole of the outer web of the 
exterior laterals, and a portion of those of the penultimate ones, and nearly 
the whole of the outer web of the first primary pure white. Lower 
breast, sides, and flanks white, tinged with very pale slightly vinaceous, 
greyish brown. Centre of crown of head, nape, back and sides of the 
neck, back and scapulars, pale greyish brown, some of the feathers incon- 
spicuously and narrowly darker centered, and the nape, and back, and 
sides of the neck distinctly tinged with vinaceous. Eump and upper tail- 
coverts pale fulvous fawn, the upper tail-coverts somewhat conspicuously 
brown shafted. Tail: central feathers hair brown, conspicuously and 
broadly margined with fulvous fawn, paling towards the edges. Lateral 
tail-feathers black, except as already described, faintly margined towards 
the tips with fulvous fawn. Quills greyish brown, third, fourth, and fifth 
primaries, blackish towards the tips ; outer web of first primary white, 
other primaries narrowly margined white and tipped with fulvous fawn. 
Secondaries narrowly margined and tipped with white. Tertiaries some- 
what darker brown at the base, but margined and tipped with fulvous fawn 
like the central tail-feathers. Primary greater coverts and lesser coverts more 
or less broadly tipped and margined with grey brown tinged with vinaceous. 
Adidt Female. Killed on the same date.— Similar to male but with 
the faint striations of the back of neck and back, &c., almost entirely 
obsolete — a brighter vinaceous tinge on crown, nape, back, and coverts, 
