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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Melanocorypha bimaculata

Melanocorypha bimaculata, Menet.

761ter. :- Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 195.

Length, 7 to 8 ; expanse, 13 to 15.25 ; wing, 4.2 to 4.8 ; tail, 2.12 to 2.4 ; tarsus, 1; bill at front, 0.6 to 0.7 ; bill at gape, 0.7 to 0.9.

Bill horny-brown, beneath yellowish; irides brown; legs yellowish-fleshy.

" Adult male in summer plumage. Above fulvous-brown, the centres of the plumes much darker-brown, giving a somewhat mottled appearance, all the feathers being edged with fulvous, especially on the hinder part of the neck and the centre of the back; wing-coverts colored like the back, but a little more rufous, plainly edged with fulvous, less distinct on the greater-coverts ; quills brown with a slight shade of ash-grey on the outer webs ; all the feathers more or less narrowly-edged with fulvous, but none of the feathers tipped white ; tail dark-brown, with conspicuous white tips to all the feathers except the two central ones; all the rectrices edged more or less broadly with fulvous; lores and a distinct eyebrow whitish; cheeks fulvous-white with a slight mottling with rufous; ear-coverts entirely rufous ; throat, breast, and flanks, rufous; a black pectoral gorget extending right across the lower part of the throat; on the upper part of the breast are a few indistinct mottled lines below the black gorget; under tail-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts entirely greyish-brown.

" Obs. :- Some specimens are much greyer than others; others again are more rufous ; some are more white on the belly, and have the breast much obscured, so that the pectoral gorget is scarcely discernible. This last dress seems to be the winter plumage.

" Young. :- Similar to the adult, but more rufous in the centre ; gorget, more obscure, and the stripes on the upper breast more indistinct." :- Sharpe and Dresser, Birds of Europe.

This fine Lark occurs in Upper Sind, and in the desert east of Oomercot.

BookTitle: 
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference: 
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book: 
Melanocorypha bimaculata
Spp Author: 
Menet.
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
279
M_ID: 
21601
M_CN: 
Bimaculated Lark
M_SN: 
Melanocorypha bimaculata
id: 
11842

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