ALAUDA ALPESTRIS. 
pi-sue.* This same species appears also to be found >■* 
Poland, Russia, and Siberia, in winter, from whenc® 
they also retire farther north on the approach of spclUr ' 
except in the northeast parts, and near the big" 
mountiiius.f 
The length of this bird is seven inches, the 
twelve inches ; the forehead, throat, sides of the nd* 
and line over the eye, are of a delicate straw, or Nap'*’’ 
yellow, elegantly relieved hv a bar of black, that pass'* 
from the nostril to the eye, below whicli it falls, rouii®; 
injf, to the depth of tlu’ee quarters of an inch; ^ | 
yeIlo\y oti the forehead aud over the eye, is houi'*^ . I 
within, for its whole length, with black, which cov^*^ I 
part of the crown ; the breast is ornamented with 
broad fan-shaped patch of black : this, as well as ^ 
the other spots of black, are marked with minute 
of yellow points; hack of the neck, and towards 
shoulders, a litrht drab tinned with lake; lesser 
coverts, bright cinnamon; i^rcater Avin^r-covert-s, 
same, interiorly dusky, and tipt Avith whitish; 
and win-rs, drab-coloured, tinged Avith reddish, 
feather of the former having a streak of dusky bla*-’, 
down its centre; primaries, deep dusky, tipt 
edged with whitish ; exterior feathers, most so ; sen**’', 
daries, broadly edged with light drab, and scolloped “ 
the tips; tail, forked, black; the two middle feiitbe'* 
which by some have been mistaken for the coverts, s'; 
reddish drab, centred with hrownisli black; the t"', 
outer ones on each side, exteriorly edged with wbii'.' 
breast, of a dusky vinous tinge, and marked with sjU’'* | 
or streaks of the same ; the belly and vent, white ; sid'*’’ 1 
streaked with hay; hill short, (Latliam, in niistuh'’ 
says seven inches,|) of a dusky bine colour; ton!?"'’ 
truncate and liifid ; legs and claws, hlaidi ; hind hr'*’ 
very long, and almost straight; iris of the eye, ha*'*.' 
The female has little or no black on the crown; »» 
the yellow on the front is narrow, and of a dirty tin?''" 
* Philosophical Transactions^ vol. Ixii, p. 398. 
t Arctic Zoology. | Synopsis, vol. ii, p. 885. 
