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Show 636 MR. R. B SHARPE ON THE [Nov. 1 7, 16. CALENDULA. Type. Calendula, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837) .. C. crassirostris. Erana, Gray, List Geu. B. p. 48 (1840) .... C. crassirostris. Distinguished by its stout and Calandra-hke bill, but otherwise much resembling Alauda in appearance, though of course the development of the first primary separates them at once. 12. CALENDULA CRASSIROSTRIS. Alouette a gros bee, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 193 (1805); Sundev. Crit. om Lev. p. 46 (1857). Alauda crassirostris, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 373 (1816) ; id. and Bonn. Enc. Meth. i. p. 323 (1823); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 380(1844); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 208 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-1. ii. p. 119 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 71 (1871). Alauda magnirostris, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 27 (1826). Melanocorypha crassirostris, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322. Calendula magnirostris, Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837). Megalophonus crassirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 243 (1850). Galerita crassirostris, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854). Calendula crassirostris, Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 195 (1872). Ammomames crassirostris, Sundev. Av. Tent. p. 54 (1872). Adult. Above dark brown, the feathers tolerably broadly margined with sandy fulvous, getting lighter on the extreme edge of the feather; the lower back and rump ashy brown, more uniform, or having only a few central streaks of dark brown on the lower back ; head rather lighter brown than the rest of the upper surface, the dark brown central streaks rather narrower; hind neck inclining to ashy fulvous and minutely streaked with dark brown ; wing-coverts dark brown, somewhat shaded with ashy and rather broadly margined with sandy fulvous on the median and lesser coverts, the greater series margined with ashy, but without such distinct edges of sandy buff as the other series ; quills brown, narrowly tipped and margined on the outer web with sandy white, the secondaries distinctly shaded with grey; upper tail-coverts ashy brown shaded with sandy and streaked with dark brown down the centres of the longest feathers ; tail-feathers dark brown margined with ashy grey, the penultimate feather narrowly, and the outermost a little more broadly margined and tipped with sandy white or fulvous; lores, feathers above and below the eye, as well as a streak running along the sides of the crown fulvous white, but not forming a distinct eyebrow ; cheeks fulvous white, minutely spotted with blackish brown ; ear-covcrts dark brown streaked with sandy buff; under surface of body dull yellowish white, the throat very slightly spotted with blackish brown, of which colour there is a moustachial line on each side ; the breast thickly and distinctly streaked with blackish brown, gradually narrowing on the lower breast and sides of abdomen to hair-like lines ; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts unspotted ; flanks ashy brown streaked with dark brown; under wing-coverts pale |