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CATALOGUE. 
Subfam. III. ALAUDINA, Vigors. 
Genus Certhilauda, Swains., Zool Journ. (1827), p. 344. 
CoETDALis, Temm. (182-). 
Alaemon, Ke^s. et Bias., Wirlelth. Eur. (1840). 
Thinoteetis, Gloger. (1842). 
Cheesomanes, Cahanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, p. 126 
(1851). 
702. CERTHILAUDA DESEBTORUM, Stanley Sp. 
Alauda desertorum, Stanley, Salfs Trav. Abyss. App, 
p. 60 (1811). Lath., Hist, of Birds, VI. p. 301. 
Certhilauda desertorum, G. R. Cray, Gen. of Birds, II. 
p. 383. Rupp., Syst. Uelers. p. 78. BlytJi, Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 183. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 246. 
Alaemon desertorum, Keys, et Bias., Wirhelth. Eur. p. . 
Cahanis, Cat. B. Mus. Heine, p. 126. 
Alauda bifasciata, Licht., Boubl. p. 27. Temm., JPl. 
Col. 393. Rilpp., Atlas, f. 5. 
Saxicola pallida, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XVI. p. 130 
(1847). 
The Desert Lark, Stanley. 
a. . Kurrachee. Presented by Dr. H. Gould, March, 
1855. 
b. ? . Desert near Meerpore. From Griffith's Collection. 
Colour of the male, light isabella-grey above, more fulvescent on 
the scapulars, tertiaries, and the two middle tail-feathers, which are 
shaded with pale dusky along the middle ; lores, superciliary stripe, 
base of upper and lower mandible, throat and belly, white; the 
breast-feathers dusky, with broad whitish margins concealing the 
dark colour within ; central ear-coverts pale, the rest blackish ; wings, 
beneath, white on the anterior half, the rest dusky ; above, deep 
dusky-black ; the primaries and secondaries are pure white at base, 
and the shorter primaries are also white-tipped, the white increasing 
in quantity to the secondaries, which are broadly white-tipped ; 
greater wing-coverts also white-tipped, and the small wing-coverts 
margined with pale fulvescent ; tail, except its two middle feathers, 
deep dusky-black, the outermost feather having its narrow outer web 
