. A history of British birds . broadly edged with Ijright sandy-grey ; chin,throat and lower parts generally, dull white, clouded on thesides of the neck with fawn-colour, so as to form an ill-defined darker patch, on the upper part of which are a fewdark brown feathers; flanks pale mouse-colour : legs, toesand claws light brown. The sexes are hardly distinguishable in plumage ; but thefemale is said to want the dark marking on the sides of theneck and to be somewhat duller in tint. The young havethe outer edge of each feather tipped with buff. The whole length of the Shrewsbury specimen was f
. A history of British birds . broadly edged with Ijright sandy-grey ; chin,throat and lower parts generally, dull white, clouded on thesides of the neck with fawn-colour, so as to form an ill-defined darker patch, on the upper part of which are a fewdark brown feathers; flanks pale mouse-colour : legs, toesand claws light brown. The sexes are hardly distinguishable in plumage ; but thefemale is said to want the dark marking on the sides of theneck and to be somewhat duller in tint. The young havethe outer edge of each feather tipped with buff. The whole length of the Shrewsbury specimen was fiveinches and three-quarters ; the tarsus three-quarters of aninch; the hind toe half an inch, its claw a quai-ter of aninch; from the carpal joint to the tip of the wing threeinches and a half; the first primary is so small as not to beeasily discovered, and the third, ha\ing the appearance ofthe second, is the longest in the wing, the second and fourthare a little shorter. VOL. I. 4 jj 642 PASSEEES. ALAUDID^. A L AUDI D ^fe A^^ Melanocorypha sibirica (J. F. Gmelin*).WHITE-WINGED Melanocorypha, F. Boief.—Bill short, stout, subconic and slightly com-pressed; upper mandible arched from the base and without notch. Nostrilsbasal, oval, closely covered by bristly feathers directed forwards. Gape without elongated feathers. Wings long: first primary very small andnearly obsolete; second and third nearly equal and longest; secondaries veryshort and emarginate at the tip; tertials moderate, not exceeding the sixthprimary. Tail short and slightly forked. Tarsus blunt and scutellated behindas well as before, longer than the middle toe; claws moderate and slightlycurved, except that of the hind toe which is much elongated and straight. Mr. Rowley was the first to recognize in a Lark nettednear Brighton, November 22nd, 1869, and shewn to himwhile alive on that day by Mr. Swaysland, an example of thisrare species, which has but seldom visited Western Euroj^
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