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ALAUDA CODEA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXXXYII. Fig. 1. (Female.) 
A. supra flavo-grisea brunneo-strigata ; gula guttureque albis ; pectore albo, brunneo-rubro-strigata ; 
ventre rufo-albo ; superciliis albis ; rostro pedibusque aurantio-brunneis, brunneo-rubro-umbratis. 
Longitudo b rostri apice ad basin caudse 3 unc. 9 lin. ; caudae 2 unc. 9 lm. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head, neck, and body rusty yellowish 
grey, the head, neck, and interscapulars variegated with longitudinal 
streaks of brownish red, washed or tinted with yellowish grey. Chin and 
throat pure white ; breast white, mottled with spots or stripes of brownish 
red ; belly rusty white, the flank tinted with pale brown ; thighs wood-brown. 
Lesser wing coverts and primary and secondary quill coverts brownish red, 
edged and tipped with white ; primary and secondary quill feathers the same 
colour, the outer vanes of the primaries towards their base narrowly edged with 
white, the secondaries edged externally and tipped with white ; tertiary quill 
feathers umber-brown, edged and tipped with white. The two middle tail 
feathers reddish brown, glossed with grey, the rest umber-brown, and all, but 
particularly the external one of each side, edged and tipped with rusty white. 
Under tail coverts white, streaked with brownish red. Eyebrows white ; 
ear coverts intermediate between broccoli and light orange-coloured brown. 
Bill legs, toes, and claws deep orange-coloured brown, shaded with brownish 
red the lower mandible towards the base sienna-yellow. 
Form &c. Figure rather slender : head rather small and towards nape 
full of feathers. Bill moderately long, subconical, and nearly straight ; the 
culmen towards the tip much arched, lower mandible towards the point slightly 
curved. Wing rounded, and when folded reaches a little beyond the first 
half of the tail ; the tertiary quill feathers rather longer than the secondaries, 
and slightly shorter than the primaries, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth 
primary quill feathers equal and longest, the second a little shorter, and the 
