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W. T. Blanford — Zoology of SiJcMm. [No. 1, 
Tristram means the Himalayas by North India, when he says that this 
bird is common in the latter at all seasons. The distinction is important. 
Most Anglo-Indians when they speak of North India, mean the Panjab and 
North-West Provinces, not the Himalayas, and the fauna of the two regions 
is quite different. 
761 Alauda ( Oalmdrella ) bbachydactyla, Temm.— Common in flocks 
in all the higher valleys of Northern Sikkim above 12,000 feet. I found it 
especially abundant at Yeomatong 12,000 feet, Momay, 15,000, and Phalung 
10,000. At the latter place early in October the short toed larks were in 
flocks of several hundreds, just as they are found in March in the plains of 
India. 
Jeidon, in the generic character of Calandrella, assigns a minute first 
primary to this bird. I cannot find it in any Indian specimens, and I have 
examined skins from Bengal, the North-West Provinces, aad Nagpur besides 
those from Upper Sikkim. That it is also absent in European and African 
specimens is, I think, clear, because Cabanis in the Museum Heineanum, 
places Calandrella ( Calandritis , Cab.) with Otocorgs in a distinct subfamily 
fiom the other larks on account of their wanting the rudimentary first 
primary. 
Otocobis Elwesi sp. nov. O. torque frontali tenui, loris, genis,pileo 
cristis duobus sincipitalibus , et fascia lata pectorali nigris ; f route superiori 
superciliis latis, regione auriculari , lateribus colli, rnento, gula, pectore, 
inferiori abdomineque alb is ; nucha, cervice, uropggio et tectricibus alarum 
pallide griseo-lilacinis ; dorso pallide brunneo, und cum supracaudalibus 
fusco-striato ; remigibus brunneis : primi pogonio eaterno albo, primariis 
cceteris albescente-, sccundariis albo margimtis et terminatis ; tribus remigi. 
bus ultimis elongatis, et rectricibus mediis brunneis, latissime fulvo-limbatis, 
cceteris rectricibus nigricantibus, duobus extemis utrinque albo limbatis et 
terminatis ; rostro nigro, subtus ad basin pallido, pedibus nigris. Long, tota 
7'75 : long, alee 4'7, caudee 3'2, tarsi 0.9, digiti posterioris cum ungue 0 75, 
unguis rnodo 0'3S, rostri a f route 0-4, a rictu 0 6. 
Narrow frontal band, lores, sides of head below the eye, and a band 
running back below the ear coverts, but not extending down the sides of the 
neck, crown of the head, two sincipital tufts, and the upper part of the breast 
black ; forehead above the black band, broad supercilia running back from it, 
with the ear coverts, sides of the neck intervening between the black of the 
cheeks and that of the breast, throat lower breast and abdomen white ; nape, 
back of neck, rump and wing coverts pale greyish lilac ; back pale fulvous 
brown with narrow dusky central stripes to the feathers, upper tail coverts 
long, pale brown with narrow central stripes and whitish edges ; quills brown, 
the fn st primary with a white outer web, remaining primaries with narrow 
isabelline edges and tips which become whito on the secondaries, the three 
