. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . ting trees and bushesin small flocks, and feeding on various fruits and berries. It is certainly a rarebird, though I have seen it in one or two collections made in Malabar and Tra-vancore. Sometime ago I suggested to Mr. Blyth that it may have been Gouldsspecies Gularis, described from Travancore, but the description of the throat isomitted, probably through mistake, as the specific name is derived therefrom. in his synopsis of the Bra
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . ting trees and bushesin small flocks, and feeding on various fruits and berries. It is certainly a rarebird, though I have seen it in one or two collections made in Malabar and Tra-vancore. Sometime ago I suggested to Mr. Blyth that it may have been Gouldsspecies Gularis, described from Travancore, but the description of the throat isomitted, probably through mistake, as the specific name is derived therefrom. in his synopsis of the Brachypodinse, before alluded to,* has made a newgenus for this and Horsfields Turdus dispar, (which closely resembles our bird) underthe name of Rubigula. Description.—Head and cheeks pure glossy black; plumage above, yellowishgreen; chin spot black; throat of a beautiful shining ruby red, the feathers divided,and somewhat bristly; rest of the plumage beneath, yellow; quills with their innerwebs dusky, bill black, legs greenish dusky, irides light yellow. Length about 6J—^wing 3—tail 2f—tarsus ^^^ths. * I. A. S. 1845, p. 676. Plate XXXVra. REBkth. Printed by Reeve BroUiers MTj-n aTvp t ■^ PVT- ORD. INSESSOMES. TRIBE CONIROSTRES. FAM. ALAUDINM. GEN. MIRAFRA. PLATE XXXV111. MIRAFRA ERYTHROPTERA. RED WINGED LARK. Synon.—Mirafra Javanica? Jerdon, Cat. No. 189. VVhkn I compiled my Catalogue I placed this Lark, though with doubt,as the M. Javanica of Horsfield, that bird having been included in Franklins Catalogue,and as it answered tolerably well to the brief description, I think it is probably thevariety of Lathams Aggia Lark, No. 49, described after a drawing of Hardwickes,and said to weigh 9? drachms. Since that time, however, I have thought it advise-able to separate it as a new species, and Mr. Blyth fully agrees with me in doingso, and has already described it under that name in the Journ. Asiat. Soc* The Red AVInged Lark is tolerably common in low jungles in the nei
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