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secondaries and coverts nearly wood brown, but 
darker in the middle. The tail has the centre 
feathers edged with wood brown, and the outer 
edge of the outer feather, with the half of that of 
the next, white. In the adult male, the forehead 
is yellow, bounded behind with a black band 
terminating on each side with some narrow black 
feathers, elongated, which can be raised at will, 
and which have obtained for this bird one of its 
appellations, Horned Lark, (A. comuta.) The 
lores, cheeks, and throat in the form of a crescent 
band, are deep black, and the chin, sides of the 
neck, and a streak above each eye, are of a pale 
but rich king’s yellow ; beneath the black gular 
band, the breast is hyacinth red, varied with 
blackish brown, the sides of the breast are of 
the same colour, and the flanks are wood brown, 
having the centre of each feather darkest. The 
belly, vent, and tail coverts are white. 
In our next sub-family, the Bullfinches or 
PyrrhulincB, the typical forms are very different 
from the birds we have now left ; but there is a 
genus of Africa and India, Pyrrhulauda, or Lark- 
Bullfinch, which, as the name indicates, combines 
characters of both. In the form of the True 
Bullfinches, the head is large, the bill short, and 
very broad at the base, at the same time of very 
considerable strength, and in these the principal 
food seems to be the tender bark or young shoots, 
and the buds of trees. Others attack the seeds 
of trees, and in one genus we have a remarkable 
