Genus COETDALLA*. 
Bill straight, stouter and higher at the base than in Motacilla ; tip slightly decurvecl. 
Nostrils as in the last genus ; rictal bristles well developed. Wings long, pointed, the 1st, 2nd, 
and 3rd quills subequal and longest ; tertials not exceeding the primaries. Tail shorter than the 
wings, even or emarginate ; the outer feathers shorter than the others. Tarsus long, smoothly 
scutellate in front ; toes moderately long, with the hind claw lengthened, in some species to a 
considerable degree. 
Plumage pale-margined above, and more or less spotted or striated on the chest. 
COEYDALLA EICHAEDI. 
(RICHAED^S PIPIT.) 
Anthus richardi, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxvi. p. 491 (1818) ; Gould, B. of Europe, pi. 135 ; Blyth, 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 135 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. 
p. 268 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 355 (1854) ; Newton in Yarrell’s 
Brit. B. p. 598 (1874); Dresser, B. of Europe, pt. 26 (1874); Irby, B. of Gibraltaiv 
p. 110 (1875) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 343. 
Corydalla richardi (Vieill.), Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 411 (1825) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. 
p. 121 (1852); Jerdon, B. of Ind. ii. p. 331 (1863); Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 366; 
Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458; Brooks, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 358 ; Hume, ibid. 1874, 
p. 239 ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 398 ; Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 152 ; Armstrong, t. c. p. 330 ; 
Prjevalski, B. of Mongolia, Eowley’s Orn. Miscell. ii. p. 195(1877) ; Hume & Davison, 
B. of Tenass., Str. Feath. 1878, p. 365 ; Ball, ibid. vol. vii.p. 220; Cripps, t. c. p. 288. 
Corydalla chinensis (Bp.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 366. 
Slender Lark, Latham ; Large Titlark, Europeans ; Marsh-Pipit of some writers. Sairam, 
lit. “ Singing-bird,” Turkestan, Scully ; Pastro marello, Portuguese in Ceylon ; Pulla 
puraki, lit. “ Worm picker,” Tamils; also Meta kdlie, lit. “Long Legs.” 
Gomarita, Sinhalese. 
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Adult male and female. Length 7-5 to 7-9 inches; wing 3-6 to 4-0; tail 2-9 to 3-2; tarsus 1-2 to 1-3; middle toe 
and claw 1-07 to 1-18 ; hind toe 0-6, its claw 0-65 to 0-82 ; bill to gape 0-75 to 0-85. 
These dimensions are taken, as is the invariable rule in this work unless otherwise stated, from Ceylon birds. 
There is, as m ill be seen, much variation in the length of the hind claw ; but it has always the same straujht 
character, differing in that from G. striolata. 
Iris pale brown or light hazel ; bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower fleshy with dusky tip, inside of mout ye ow , 
legs and feet fleshy, the toes browndsh and the soles yellow, claws brown. 
* Structurally this genus is but little different from true Anthus. It was adopted by Vigors for the species firat to 
be noticed and has been adopted generally for the allied hair-brown fnlvous-margined Pipits, C. iiehardt, . striolata, 
O. ruMa ’and C. malayensis of the Indo-Malayan region. I retain the generic term here because these birds appear to 
differ from true Anthus in not having a marked bneeding-plumage. Blyth says that they only moult once ; but this is 
erroneous, for I have detected examples of both the commoner Ceylon species acquiring new feathers in spring, although 
they do not shed the quills and rectrices at that season. 
