Jerdon's bush lark is typically very pale on the underside The common name commemorates the surgeon-naturalist Thomas C.

Dark centers of primary coverts are prominent, and wing panels are duller and rufous.

In the southern Western Ghats, the race ceylonensis is darker and more rufous on the underside and has a longer bill.

[3] Jerdon's bush lark has a large range in south-east India and Sri Lanka, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 100,000-1,000,000 square kilometers.

[8] It has proven adaptable to a variety of open habitats up to a maximum elevation of 1500 m. Some of these are forest perimeters, rocky scrubland, scrubby hill meadows and clearings in open-type forests, shrub-edged unused croplands, and thickets of bamboo.