CATALOGUE. 
479 
Length about 6 in., of wing 3|- in,, the short first primary in., 
and If in. shorter than the second, which is i in. less than the next 
three, which are equal; tail 2f in., bill to gape |in,, tarse -|- in., and 
hind claw ^ of an inch. 
" Feeds on grain and insects. On rocks and stony places. Claws 
much worn. Legs brown." — (Griffith's MS. Notes.) 
Mr. Blyth states tliat it also inhabits Cashmere. 
Genus Pyrrhulauda, A. Smith, Zool. S. Africa (1829). 
Megalotis, Swains., Zool. Journ. p. 343 (1827). 
CoEAPiiiTES, Cabanis (1847). 
Ptekhulalatjda, Bilppell (1842). 
Ptrgilauda, Verreaux. 
724. PYRRHULAUDA GRISEA, ScopoU Sp. 
Alauda grisea, ScopoU. {Sonn. Voy. Ind. II. 1. 113,/. 2). 
Pyrrhulauda grisea, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. 
p. 381. Hodgs., Cat. B. of Nep. p. 109. Blyth, 
J. A. S. Beng. XIII. p. 958 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. 
Beng. p. 134. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 512. Layard, 
Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. n.s. p. 259. Tytler, Ann, 
Nat. Hist. XIII. n.s.p. 369. 
Coraphites griseus, Calanis, Cat. B. 3fus. Heine, p. 124, 
Alauda gingica, Gmel., S. N. I. p. 795. Lath., Ind. Orn. 
11. p. 496 ; Gen. Hist. Yl. p. 300 ; Shaw's Zool. X. 
p. 523. Sundevall, Bhysiogr. Sails., Tidsh. (1837) ; 
Ann. Nat. Hist. XVIII. i?. 259. 
Pringilla crucigera, Temm. Bl. Col. 269,/. 1. Sykes, 
B. Z. S. (1832),^. 94. 
Pyrrhulauda crucigera, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Ifise. p. 84. 
Jerdon, Madr. Journ. XI. p. 35. Blyth, J. A. S. 
Beng. XL p. 201 ; Ann. Nat. Hist. XII. p. 166. 
Burgess, B. Z. S. (1854), p. 255. 
Gingi Lark, Bath., Syn. IV. p. 380. 
Duree Finch, Lath., Gen. Hist. VI. p. 115, t. 97. jP. 
Hamilton, MS. L p. 81. 
Black-bellied Finch-lark, Jerdon. 
Squat Finch-ortolan, of some Europeans in India, Jerdon. 
DuEEE, Beng., F. {Buchanan) Hamilton. 
CnAK Bhaeai and DntiLO Chata, Beng. Blyth. 
