. Birds. Birds. OTOCOEYS. 321 surface have, in tbo worn summer plumage, very much larger and more conspicuous dark shaft-streaks. The pale parts of the head are at all seasons white, never yellow. The colours of the soft parts of this Lark do not appear to have been recorded. Length about 8*5 ; tail 3-7; wing 5; tarsus -95; bill from gape •8 : bill at front '55 to Fig. 91.—Head of 0. Distribution. The higher parts of the Himalayas from Kashmir and Ladak down to Kumaun, extending into the adjoining parts of Tibet. This species appears to be found only at very high altitudes. 857. Otocorys
. Birds. Birds. OTOCOEYS. 321 surface have, in tbo worn summer plumage, very much larger and more conspicuous dark shaft-streaks. The pale parts of the head are at all seasons white, never yellow. The colours of the soft parts of this Lark do not appear to have been recorded. Length about 8*5 ; tail 3-7; wing 5; tarsus -95; bill from gape •8 : bill at front '55 to Fig. 91.—Head of 0. Distribution. The higher parts of the Himalayas from Kashmir and Ladak down to Kumaun, extending into the adjoining parts of Tibet. This species appears to be found only at very high altitudes. 857. Otocorys elwesi. Elwes's Horned Lark. Otocorys penicillata (Oould), Sbrsf. Sr M. Cat. ii, p. 469; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 429; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 422; id. Cat. no. 768. Otocorys elwesi, Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 62 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 534 ; Oates in Hume's N. |- E. 2iid ed. ii, p. 220. Otocorys longirostris, Gould, apud Hume Sr Senders. Lah. to York. p. 267. The Homed Lark, Jerd. Coloration. Of the same coloration as 0. longirostris. The present species differs in its much smaller size ; its conspicuously smaller bill; in the large amount and intensity of the vinous or pink tinge, which suffuses the whole of the upper plumage and wings; and in the small extent and paler tone of the streaks on the back and rump. The nestlings of this and other species of Otocorys have the whole upper plumage fulvous, each feather with a subterminal black bar and a white tip; the wing-feathers are all broadly margined with fulvous ; lower plumage pale yellowish white, spotted with brown on the throat, fore neck, and breast. The adult plumage is assumed at the iirst autumn moult. Bill black above, pale near the base below; legs black ; soles of feet yellowish {Blanford). Length less than 8; tail 3-4; wing 4'3 to 4-8 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from gape '7. TOL. II. T. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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