. An illustrated manual of British birds . ewhat jerkyflight. In autumn and winter large flocks are formed, and in India,according to Jerdon. they quite darken the air. The food consistsprincipally of small seeds. The adult has the upper parts pale rufous-brown with darkerstreaks ; a white line over each eye; central tail-feathers dusky-brown, the rest blackish-brown, except the outer pair which arebroadly margined with buffish-white; under parts white, with a ^brown spots and streaks on the sides of the neck, and a buffish tingeon the breast and flanks. After the moult both upper and unde
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ewhat jerkyflight. In autumn and winter large flocks are formed, and in India,according to Jerdon. they quite darken the air. The food consistsprincipally of small seeds. The adult has the upper parts pale rufous-brown with darkerstreaks ; a white line over each eye; central tail-feathers dusky-brown, the rest blackish-brown, except the outer pair which arebroadly margined with buffish-white; under parts white, with a ^brown spots and streaks on the sides of the neck, and a buffish tingeon the breast and flanks. After the moult both upper and under partshave a warm rufous tint, which is sometimes retained until the middleof the following May. Length 5*5 in. ; wing 34 in. The sexesare alike in plumage ; the young bird has the feathers of the upperparts, including the tail, broadly margined and tipped with short and conical bill is yellowish-brown; the legs pale brown ;the hind claw straight and, as a rule, short, but it is subject to con-siderable variation. ALAUDID.^. 247. WHITE-\VIx\GED sibirica, J. F. Gmelin. An example of this Eastern species, which had been capturedalive on Nov. 22nd 1S69, when associating with a flock of Snow-Buntings, was recognized the same day bj^ the late Mr. G. DawsonRowley and subsequently exhibited at a meeting of the ZoologicalSociety. It proved to be a female, and is now in the collection ofMr. T. J. Monk of Lewes. An occasional visit from the White-winged Lark is not surprising,for three specimens have already been obtained in Belgium : one inOctober 1855 near Liege, another at IMalines (or Mechlin) in1856, and a third more recently near Namur. On Heligoland onewas taken on August 2nd 18S1; and although its occurrence is notyet authenticated in Northern Germany its visits to Poland andGalizia are not unfrcquent, while stragglers have been recorded—always on the autumn migration—from Trent in Tyrol, and Veronaand Bergamo in Italy. On the black-earth plains of Russi
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