. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . of the feathers. The young bird is nearly black above with yellowish or fulvousmargins to all the feathers ; the breast is also very dark or blackishwith yellowish margins and the remainder of the lower plumage ispale yellow. The colours of the soft parts of this Lark do not appear to havebeen recorded. Length about 9*5 ; tail 3*5; wing 6 ; tarsus 1*1; bill from gape1*2 ; hind claw up to 8. Distribution. The higher parts of Sikhim, extending into theadjoining parts of Tibet and the mountain region of WesternChina. 859. Melanocorypha bi
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . of the feathers. The young bird is nearly black above with yellowish or fulvousmargins to all the feathers ; the breast is also very dark or blackishwith yellowish margins and the remainder of the lower plumage ispale yellow. The colours of the soft parts of this Lark do not appear to havebeen recorded. Length about 9*5 ; tail 3*5; wing 6 ; tarsus 1*1; bill from gape1*2 ; hind claw up to 8. Distribution. The higher parts of Sikhim, extending into theadjoining parts of Tibet and the mountain region of WesternChina. 859. Melanocorypha bimaculata. The Eastern Calandra Lark. Alauda bimaculata, Menetr. Cat. Rais. Cauc. p. 37 (f832).Melanocorypha bimaculata {Menetr.), Blanf. S. F. v, p. 246; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 421; id. Cat. no. 761 ter; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 89 ; St ally, Ibis, 1881, p. 580; Barnes, Birds Bum. p. 279 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. torquata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 476 (1847); Hume 8f Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 265, pi. xxvii; Scully, S. F. iv, p. Fig. 92.—Head of M. bimaculata. Coloration. The upper pluinage dark brown, each feather laterallymargined with fulvous, the character of the upper plumage beingstreaky ; tail dark brown, margined with fulvous, the inner web ofall the feathers, except the middle pair, -with a terminal white spot; y2 324: ALAUDIDvE. wing-coverts and quills dark brown, margined with fulvous ; nowhite whatever about the wing ; a dark line running through thelores and behind the eye; a broad pale fulvous supercilium ;cheeks and ear-coverts rufous, streaked with brown ; a patch ofwhite under the black band through the lores and underthe eye ; chin, throat, and a lateral band behind the ear-coverts white; a broad black band across the upper breast inter-rupted in the middle; remainder of breast fulvous streaked withbrown; other parts of lower plumage white, the flanks tingedwith fulvous. The female has the black pectoral band reduced in size. Legs
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