. A history of British birds . claw very long, and but slightlycurved. The whole length of the male is about seven inches andthree-quarters. From the carpal joint to the end of thelongest primary, three inches and five-eighths, but the speciesvaries a good deal in size; the second, third and fourth feathersof the wing are very nearly equal in length, but the third israther the longest. The female resembles the male, but is said to be lessrufous: the young have the upper parts duller and paler,with rather more spots on the throat and breast. Vigors suggested the removal of Richards Pipit from t
. A history of British birds . claw very long, and but slightlycurved. The whole length of the male is about seven inches andthree-quarters. From the carpal joint to the end of thelongest primary, three inches and five-eighths, but the speciesvaries a good deal in size; the second, third and fourth feathersof the wing are very nearly equal in length, but the third israther the longest. The female resembles the male, but is said to be lessrufous: the young have the upper parts duller and paler,with rather more spots on the throat and breast. Vigors suggested the removal of Richards Pipit from thegenus Anthus, proposing for it the term Corydalla ( ii. p. 397), and this distinction has been adopted bymany systematic writers. The woodcuts at the foot of page 585 shew the feet of thefour commoner British species of Pipit in the order in whichthey have been described here—namely, fig. 1 the Tree-Pipit,fig. 2 the Meadow-Pipit, fig. 3 the Piock-Pipit and fig. 4Richards Pipit. 604 PASSBHES. ALAUDID^E. ALAUDID^.. Otocorys alpestris (Linnaeus*). THE SHORE-LAKK. Alauda alpestris. Otocorts, Bonaparte\. — &\\\ rather short, suhconic, upper mandible slightlyarched and -without notch. Nostrils basal, oval, closely covered by bristly fea-thers directed forwards. Gape straight. Head in the adult male with a tuftof long, erectile feathers on either side of the occiput. Wings long ; the firstprimary so small as at first sight to seem wanting, the second the longest, butthe third nearly its equal, tbe fourth decidedly shorter, secondaries short andemarginate at the tip ; tertials comparatively short, about equal to the seventhprimary. Tail rather long and slightly forked. Tarsus blunt and scutellatedbehind as well as before, shorter than the middle toe; claws moderate and veryslightly curved, that of the hind toe being comparatively straight. The Larks in several ways link the foregoing family tothe Buntings and Finches which are to follow, yet manysystematists refuse to
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