CATALOaUE. 
Ageea, Hiud., Jerdon. 
KoowAN Leepee, Plains, TicJcell, 
A. B. Dukhun. Presented by Colonel Sykcs. 
" The Eed-bellied Lark is found over all the Peninsula, but is much 
more common iu the Deccan than below the Ghauts. It frequents the 
open plains, preferring the barest spots, ploughed lands, stubble- 
fields, and beds of nullahs. It sometimes, though rarely, perches on 
bushes. It feeds chiefly on seeds of various kinds, also on insects 
occasionally. It frequently ascends suddenly in the air by a few- 
interrupted strokes of its wings, and uttering at the time a plea- 
sant loud whistle-like note, sounding something like too-ivhee ; it 
then descends with a sudden fall, changing its note to a low bark-like 
warbliug ; when close to the ground, it again repeats this, and so on 
for several times." — (Jerdon.) 
" This bird is characterized by the lightness, shortness, abruptness, 
and sudden ascents and descents of its flight." — (Sykes.) 
" Nest flat, shallow, circular, 4 inches in diameter ; placed in mea- 
dows in long grass, which it entwines over the nest, leaving only a 
small passage open. Eggs four, lengthened, blunted. |- X -f ; dirty 
greenish-white, thickly sprinkled with pale and dark-brown confluent 
spots. June."— (Tickell, J. A.'S. Beug. XYII. p. 301.) 
723. AMMOMANES PHGENICUROIDES, Blyth. 
Mirafra phcenicuro'ides, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XXII. 
p. 583 (1853). 
Ammomanes phoenicuroides, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XXIV. 
^. 258. 
? Alauda pallida, Elirenherg . 
? Alauda deserti, Licht. Douhl. p. 28. 
? Alauda isabellina, Temm., Bl. Col. 244,/ 2. 
? Alauda lusitania, Omelin. Degland. 
A. Pushut. B. Bolan Pass. From Griffith's Collection. 
Affined to A. phoenicura, Franklin, but the general hue less ru- 
fescent ; the under-parts pale fulvous grey, albescent on the throat ; 
tail brown, faintly rufescent at its extreme base, and on the exterior 
web of the outermost feather ; broad margins to inner webs of the 
primaries and secondaries, with the axillaries, also pale rufescent, 
imparting this hue to the inner surface of the wing. 
