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CATAIOGUE. 
a. h. c. d. ^ ?. Afghanistan. From Griffith's Col- 
lection. 
E. c^. Kurrachee. Presented by Dr. H. Gould, March, 
1855. 
F. ^ . Bengal. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
G. ?. {A. gulgula, Sykes.) Dukhun. Presented by 
Colonel Sykes. 
" Very common in winter in Afghanistan and Scinde ; it is likewise 
abundant in all the north-western provinces of India." — (Hutton.) 
" The Chendul is found throughout the Peninsula, but is more 
common in the table-land than below the Ghauts. It is very fre- 
quently caged in all parts of the country, and the bird is kept in 
darkness. by several layers of cloth being wrapped round the cage? 
the custom being, to wrap an additional covering round the cage 
every year. In this state, it sings very sweetly, and learns to imitate 
most exactly the notes of various other hirds, and animals ; even such 
as the yelping of a dog, the mewing of a cat, &c. It feeds on various 
insects, chiefly grasshoppers, and in default of this food, on grains 
and seeds. Irides brown." — (Jerdon.) 
" Nest, a little grass in a hole in the ground ; eggs four, ovato- 
pyriform, 5:^ X ^ in., yellowish white, uniformly freckled with 
greyish yellow and neutral," — (Theobald.) 
Genus Alauda, Linn., S. N. I. p. 287 (1735). 
Ltjllula, Kaup., Nat, Syst. (1829), p. 92. 
CoRYS, Beichenlacli (1850). 
704. ALAUDA ARVENSI8, Linn. 
Alauda arvensis. Linn., S. N. I. p. 287. Lath., Hist, of 
Birds, Yl.p. 265. Gould, B. Eur. t. 166. G. B. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds, 11. p. 380. Cat. Brit. B. in Brit. 
Mus. p. 114. Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. XIII. p. 961 ; 
Ann. Nat. Hist. (1847),^. 321 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. 
Beng. p. 131. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 245. CahaniSj 
Cat. B. Mus. Heine, p. 125. 
Alauda coelipeta, Pallas, Zoogr. I. p. 524. 
Alauda moreatica. Yon der MuMe. 
Alauda dulcivox, Hodgs., Gray^s Zool. Misc. (1844), 
p. 84 ; Cat. B. ofNep.p. 109. 
The Sky-lark, Latham. 
The Harmonious Lark, Hodgson. 
