LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
a spot below the eye pale cream colour ; Car-covers pale rufous ; 
chin white ; breast and lower parts pale cream colour ; beak long, 
gonys nearly straight, flesh-coloured; legs apparently flesh col- 
oured; hind claw short, straight. 
Total length, 6.5 ; beak to front, 7 , to gape, 8, high, 2 ; wing, 3.7 ; 
rectrices, 2 . 8 ; tarsus, i.i; hind claw, 2 J. 
A well-marked species, leading, by its lengthened beak, to Cer- 
ihialauda. The A. ferruginea of Lafresnaye approaches it in 
colouration, but is said to have the beak shorter than A. calandra , 
the breast streaked with black, &c. 
60. Alauda spleniata , Strickland. Lores and superciliary streak 
whitish ; front and crown chestnut ; feathers of back and wing- 
covers fuscous in the middle, broadly margined with pale greyish- 
brown ; margins of the greater covers and tertials nearly white ; 
remiges light fuscous, narrowly margined externally with a pale 
impure rufous tinge ; their tips and inner webs narrowly margined 
with wdiitish ; upper tail-covers pale chestnut, tipped with whitish ; 
rectrices deep fuscous, narrowly margined externally and slightly 
tipped with white, outer webs of the external pair wholly white ; 
ear-covers light brown ; cheeks, chin, throat, and lower parts 
whitish ; a faint brownish tinge on the middle, and a large chestnut 
patch on each side of the breast ; beak subconical, the margin nearly 
straight, the gonys slightly curved upwards, the culmen rather more 
curved downwards, the tip brownish, the base flesh colour; tarsi 
flesh colour ; toes and claws brownish, hind toe short, slightly 
curved. 
Total length, 6 ; beak to front, 4£, to gape, 6, high, 2, wide, 2, 
wing, 3.5; medial rectrices, 2 . 4, external, 2 . 1 ; tarsus, 8 ; bm ( 
claw, . QQ f 1 
Allied to A. ruficeps , Riippell, Neue Wirbeltliiere, pi. 3 > • » 
but that has a black not a rufous patch on each side of the breas . 
Specimens of this bird were collected in S. Africa by D r * Sunt , 
and labelled by him “ Alauda ruficapilla ,” which is Stephens s nau 
for the “Calotte Rousse” of Levaillant, Ois. Af. pi. 198 (A • ruji 
p ileus, Vieill.), a very distinct species. 
61. Alauda ncevia, Strickland. Crown greyish-brown, ^‘ a< \ 
neck paler, back and wing-covers fulvous — the feathers of a 
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