7. MACRONTX, 623 



streaked with buffy white ; the sides of the neck with narrow brown 

 streaks ; throat dull white, with a narrow black moustachial line ; 

 rest of under surface of body dull whitish, marked on the breast 

 with triangular dark-brown streaks, longer and broader on the sides 

 of the body, which are of a richer fulvous ; thighs fulvous ; under 

 wing-coverts fulvous, with narrow brownish shaft-lines ; quills ashy 

 brown, edged with ochreous butf along the inner web : " bill horny 

 black or dusky above and at tip ; the middle of the lower mandible 

 pinkish horny, and its base horny yellow ; gape fleshy yellow ; feet 

 pale fleshy, the toes darker ; claws brown horny ; iris brown " 

 (ScuUi/). Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-9, tail 2-9, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Himalayas. 



a. Ad. sk. Himalayas. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Murree. Col. J. Biddulph [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Capt. Stackhouse Pinwill [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Gould Collection. 



e,f,g,h. Ad. sk. Nepal. " B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(TjqDes of species.) 

 i. Ad. sk. Nepal (^Hodgson). India Museum. 



7. MACEONYX. 



Type. 

 Macronyx, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 344 (1817) M. capensis. 



Range. Africa south of the Sahara and Nubia (?. e. the Ethiopian 

 Region proper). 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat rich orange. 



a'. Centre of breast and abdomen orange capensis, p. 623. 



b'. No orange on breast, which is ashy brown flavicoUis, p. 625. 



b. Throat bright yeUow : abdomen yellow croceiis, p. 626. 



c. Throat pink or vermilion amelice, p. 628, 



1. Macronyx capensis. 



L'Alouette du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 364. 



pi. xLx. fig. 3 (1760). 

 Alauda capensis, Linn. Syst. Xat. i. p. 288 (1766) ; Vieill. X. Diet. 



dHist. Nat. i. p. 372 (1816). 

 Cape Lark, Lath. Gen. St/n. ii. pt. 2, p. 384 (17^3). 

 Calandre du Cap de Bonne Esperance, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 504. fig. 2 



(1783). 

 L Alouette Sentinelle, LevaiU. Ois. d'Afr. iv. p. 132, pi. 195 (1806) ; 



Simdev. Krit. Framst. p. 46 (1858). 

 Macronyx crocea. Less. Traite dOrn. i. p. 424 (1831, nee V.). 

 Anthus capensis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 206 (1847) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 121 (1867); Gray. Hand-I. B. i. p. 252, no. 3661 (1869); 



Ay res, Ibis, 1876, p. 426. 

 Macronyx capensis^ Bji. Conep. i. p. 247 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 



