. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 19. CALENDCJLA. 639 19. CALENDULA. Type. Calendula, Sioains. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837) C. crassirostris. Eraua, Grai/, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 48 C. Foot of CahiuJuhi crassirostris:. Range. Coiifiucd to South Africa. 1. Calendula crassirostris. Alouette a gros bee, Leuaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 193 (1805); Sundev. Krit. om Leoaill. p. 4i3 (1857). Alauda crassirostris, lleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nut. i. p. 373 (1816) ; Oral/, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Layard, D. S. Afr. p. 208 (1807); Grat/, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 119, no. 7773 (1870)
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 19. CALENDCJLA. 639 19. CALENDULA. Type. Calendula, Sioains. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837) C. crassirostris. Eraua, Grai/, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 48 C. Foot of CahiuJuhi crassirostris:. Range. Coiifiucd to South Africa. 1. Calendula crassirostris. Alouette a gros bee, Leuaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 193 (1805); Sundev. Krit. om Leoaill. p. 4i3 (1857). Alauda crassirostris, lleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nut. i. p. 373 (1816) ; Oral/, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Layard, D. S. Afr. p. 208 (1807); Grat/, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 119, no. 7773 (1870); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 81. Alauda magnirostris, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 27 (1826). Melauocorypha crassirostris, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322. Caleudala magnirostris, Stvai?is. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837). Erana crassirostris. Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p 48. Megaloplionus crassirostris, Bp. 243 (1850). Galerita crassirostris, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854). Calendula crassirostris, Gurney in Andevsson\^ B. p. I'.t5 (1872); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 636 ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 513 (1884). Ammomaues crassirostris, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 72 (1872). Adult. Above dark brown, the feathers tolerably broadly margined with sandy fulvous, getting lighter on the extreme edge of the feather, the lower back and rump ashy brown, more uniform, or having only a few central streaks of dark brown, on the lower back; head rather lighter brown than the rest of the upi>er surface, the dark brown central streaks rather narrower; hind neck inclining to ashy fulvous and minutel)' streaked with dark brown ; wing- coverts dark brown, somewhat shaded with ashy and rather broadly margined with sandy fulvous on the median and lesser coverts, the greater series margined with ashy, but without such distinct edges of sandy buff as the other series ; (]uills brown, narrowly tipped and margined on the outer web with sandy white, the secondaries distinctly shaded with grey ; up
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