BUSH LARK. 
and the inner web light chestnut, becoming more extended inw'ardly ; outer tail 
wlute, tinged with chestnut, penultimate pair wliitish-chestnut on the outer web 
and at the tip and brownish-ash on the inner web ; remainder of the tail blackish- 
brown, sUghtl}' margined with chestnut ; cheeks light chestnut; throat and fore¬ 
neck isabelline; remainder of the under-parts reddish-isabelline, darkest on the 
chest and sides. Eyes dark browJi, feet grey, bill dark horn, lower mandible light 
horn. Total longtli 154 mm. ; cuhnen 11, wing 77. tail 49, tarsus 22. Figured. 
Collected at Onslow, West Australia, on the 12th of January, 1901, and is 
M. woodivardi. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult female. Head and mantle brownish-red with darker nxiddle to the feathers ; lower 
back, rump, and upper tail-coverts darker, wing-coverts like the back ; outeirnost 
primario? ashy-brown, margined at the base of the inner and outer webs with pale 
chestnut ; innenuost primaries mostly chestnut, and blackish along the shafts; 
secondaries similar but with more black along the middle of the feather ; outermost 
pair of tail-feathers white, slightly tinged with pink; penultimate pair more strongly 
tinged with pinkish-chestnut and with the iimer web slightly bordered with dusky ; 
remainder of tail deep ash-brown, bordered and tipped with pale chestnut-buff; 
throat soiled white ; chest and sides of the body reddish-isabelline, belly slightly 
darker. Eyes hazel, bill fleshy-pinlc, legs and feet pink. Total length 150 mm. ; 
culmen 11, wing 74, tail 50, tarsus 22. Figmed . Collected at Point Cloates, Mid¬ 
west Australia, on the 6th of February, 1902^ 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Adult male. Head brownish-bufi, margined with deep reddish-brown, an indistinct collar 
round the liind-neck composed of lighter feathers than those of the head; back 
and wing-coverts broAvnish-black, very widely margined on the inner wnb with 
browaiish-cliestnut; lower back and rump darker ; primaries deep ash-brown, 
margined on the base of the outer and inner web with deep chestnut; secondaries 
bronze-black, margined with reddish-chestnut; outermost tail-feather pinkish- 
w'hite, Avidely margined on the inner web with blackish-brown; remainder of tail 
brownish-black, margined on both webs with deep chestnut ; a short wliite eyebrow 
of chestnut feathers ; sides of face brownish, streaked with reddish ; tliroat soiled 
white ; chest and remainder of the under-parts chestnut-buff, the former with dull 
black spots at the extremity. Eyes brown, feet and tarsi pale fleshy-brown, bill 
brown witli lower mandible greyish-wiute. Total length 145 mm. ; culmen 11, 
wing 76, tail 50, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected on Melville Island, Northern 
Territory, on the 3rd of June, 1912, and is the type of M. j. mdvillensis. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 
Adult male. Head and upper mantle tawny-rufous with a broad black-brown streak 
down the middle of the feathers, an indistinct collar of lighter feathers round the 
liind-neck ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts smoky-brown, indistinctly 
streaked with blackish-brown down the shafts; secondaries bronze-black widely 
margined on both webs with buffish-wliite on the innermost, and with pale 
chestnut on the outermost; primaries deep ash-brown, margined tow'ards the 
base of both webs with pale chestnut; outer tail-feathers white, margined on the 
iimer w^eb with blackish ; penultimate pair white on the outer web and browuiish- 
black on the inner w^eb ; remainder of the tail blackish-brown, the middle pair 
bordered down both webs with pale chestnut; a broad reddish-fawn coloured 
eyebrow; cliin and tliroat soiled white; remainder of the under-suiface tawny- 
buff ; feathers of the chest spotted with blackish-brown. Eyes brown, feet and 
tarsus fleshy-grey, bill brown, with basal half of cutting edge of upper and all 
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