FEB. 1897. EAST AFRICAN COLLECTION OF BIRDS ELLIOT. 37 



30, fig. 2 (1835-40). Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., Vol. XII, 

 p. 559 (1888). 

 $ Hullier. 



FAM. ALAUDID^. 



24. Alaudula somalica. 



Alaudula somalica. Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 472 (1895). 

 $ Silo Plain. 



25. Mirafra gilletti. 



Mirafra gilletti. Sharpe, Bull. Orn. Club, iv, p. xxix. 

 $ Hullier. 



26. Mirafra intercedens. 



Mirafra intercedens. Reich., Ornith. Monat, p. 96, 1895. 



$ $ Dagahbur. 



We only met with this species at Dagahbur in Ogaden, about 

 twenty miles south of the Haud. It is apparently a very dis- 

 tinct species. 



27. Mirafra sharpii, sp. nov. 



$ Silo Plain. 



Head rufous, the feathers generally having a black spot at the 

 tip. Nape and sides of neck dark rufous, feathers edged with 

 pale buff. Back dark rufous ,or chestnut, feathers margined 

 with buff and with a black subterminal V-shaped bar. Rump 

 similar to back, upper tail coverts, brownish-black with gray 

 margins, and a black spot near the tip. Wings have the inner- 

 most secondaries like the back, outer ones rufous for two-thirds 

 their length, remaining portion pale brown, and a black line 

 running parallel to the shaft near the margin of outer web; tips 

 white. Primaries light chestnut for two-thirds their length, on 

 outer quills, pale. brown on remaining part. The chestnut color 

 increases in extent on the inner primaries until the innermost is 

 all chestnut with a blackish-brown tip; under wing coverts deep 

 buff; primary coverts rufous. Central rectrices blackish-brown, 

 mottled with black in the middle, grading into rufous towards the 

 outer edges of the webs, which are margined with white, and an 

 irregular black line runs along the web near its margin. Remain- 

 der of rectrices blackish-brown margined with white, but the 

 outermost rectrix has the entire outer web pale buff. Supercili- 



