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CATALOGUE. 
The Common Indian Lark. 
PooLLOO, Ceylon, Layard. 
A. {A. gulgula, Frankl.) Dacca. Presented by Captain 
R. C. Tytler. 
B. {A. leiopus, Hodgs.) Nepal. Presented by B. H. 
Hodgson, Esq. 
C. d. (A. gracilis, Blytb.) S. India. Presented by the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
e. Drawing. From Dr. F. (B.) Hamilton's Collection. 
" This species is common in Bengal, and during February more 
especially, is brought very numerously to the bazaar, and sold as 
Ortolans. It very closely resembles the British Sky-lark in its song 
ani habits."— (Blyth.) 
Mr. Jerdon states that " it is very abundant on the Neilgherries." 
" In Ceylon, this is the ' Sky-lark ' of Europeans, and is very 
abundant in all open lands, whether pasture or ploughed ; it is also 
found in the sandy plains of the northern, and among the terraced 
fields of the central province. It sings sweetly enough, but does not 
mount to the altitude of the English species. For its nest it selects 
some depression in the soil, which it lines with fine grasses, and in it 
deposits from three to five eggs of a brownish-grey colour, profusely 
streaked and mottled. Axis 9 lines, diameter 7 lines. It breeds in 
April."— (E. L. Layard.) 
707. ALAUDA ARBOREA, Linn. 
Alauda arborea. Linn., S. iV. I. p. 287. Lath., Sist. of 
Birds, yi. p. 269. Gould, B. of Eur. t. 167. G. B. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 380 ; Cat. Brit. B. in 
Brit. Mus. p. 115. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 131. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 245. 
Lullula arborea, Kaup, Nat. Sysf. p. 92. 
Galerita arborea, Cahanis, Cat. B. Mus. Seine, p. 125. 
Corys arboreus, Reiclienhach. 
The Wood-lark, Latham. 
a. England. Presented by J. Gould, Esq. 
Genus Otocoris, Bonaparte (1839). 
Eremophila, Boie, Lsis (1828), p. 1278. 
PniLEEEMOS, Brehm., Deutsch. Vceg. (1831),^. 312. 
