. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . l tone of upper plumagerufous. a. Wing 3-2 to 3-5 M. affinis, p. 335. b. Wing 27 to 3 M. microptera, p. 336. b. Rufous on inner and outer webs of pri-maries reaching to shaft and confluent. M. erythroptera, p. 334. MIRAFRA. 333 869. Mirafra cantillans. The Singing Bush-Lark. Mirafra cantillans, Jerd., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 960 (1844) ; p. 134 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii, p. 476; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 420;Hume, N. Sf E. p. 476 ; id. Cat. no. 757 ; Barnes, Birds 275 ; Sharpe, M. xiii, p. 605; Oates in Humes N. fy
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . l tone of upper plumagerufous. a. Wing 3-2 to 3-5 M. affinis, p. 335. b. Wing 27 to 3 M. microptera, p. 336. b. Rufous on inner and outer webs of pri-maries reaching to shaft and confluent. M. erythroptera, p. 334. MIRAFRA. 333 869. Mirafra cantillans. The Singing Bush-Lark. Mirafra cantillans, Jerd., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 960 (1844) ; p. 134 ; Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii, p. 476; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 420;Hume, N. Sf E. p. 476 ; id. Cat. no. 757 ; Barnes, Birds 275 ; Sharpe, M. xiii, p. 605; Oates in Humes N. fy ed. ii, p. 227. Aghun, Aghin, Hind. ; Burutta pitta, Aghin pitta, Tel. Coloration. After the autumn moult the whole upper plumageis dark brown, each feather with rufous lateral margins and awhitish terminal band ; wing-coverts and tertiaries brown marginedwith rufous ; primary-coverts, primaries, and secondaries with nearlythe entire outer web deep rufous or chestnut; middle pair of tail-feathers brown broadly margined with rufous, the next three pairs. Fig. 95.—Head of M. cantillans. almost entirely brown, the penultimate brown on the inner web,white on the outer, the outermost white with a blackish band onthe inner margin of the inner web ; lores and supercilium very palefulvous ; sides of the head mottled with fulvous and brown ; chinand throat white ; remainder of lower plumage fulvous, the sidesof the neck and the whole breast streaked with triangular brownmarks. Shortly after the autumn moult the whitish terminal bands orfringes of the feathers of the upper plumage become worn away. Iris brown ; legs, feet, and lower mandible fleshy ; upper mandi-ble horny brown {Butler). Length nearly 6; tail 2*1 ; wing 3*2 ; tarsus 75 ; bill fromgape -55. Distribution. Locally distributed over a considerable portion ofthe Indian Peninsula. This species is found in the Punjab, Baj-putana, the North-West Provinces, and Western Bengal, extendingsouth to about the latitude of Madras. It
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