WHITE- SPOTTED LARK. 
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most, on each side, are almost entirely pale fawn 
tinged with rufous ; the others being black, with a 
rufous edge on that only which is next to the outer- 
most ; round the ears there is a dark shade which 
unites to a macular stripe, proceeding from the 
lower jaw, leaving the middle part of the ears 
nearly white ; the under plumage, from the chin to 
the vent, is white, broken only by a number of 
black spots, nearly round, across the breast ; these 
spots are placed only on the tip of the feathers ; bill 
and legs pale. 
Total length, inches ; hill from the gape, ; 
wings, 4 ; tail beyond, • from the base, 2| ; tar- 
sus, t 9 3 ; hind-claw, in a straight line. 
YELLOW-BELLIED, OR SENEGAL LONG-CLAW. 
Macromjx Jlnvigaster, Swains. 
Aliove varied with black and brown ; beneath fine yellow, 
with a broad black gorget o'n the breast ; bill slightly 
curved, emarginate. 
The enormously large feet of this genus readily 
distinguish it from all others in this family, and 
immediately reminds us of its prototypes in other 
tribes, as Megapodius, Menura, Rallus, and nearly 
all the great footed representatives of the rasorial 
order of birds. Such it truly is in the circle of the 
Alaudinw. Hitherto the genus has been only known 
