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decreasing in size towards tlie centre of the tail ; lores and a 

 distinct eyebrow yellow, shading off into buffy whitish above the 

 ear-coverts ; feathers in front of the eye greyish ; sides of face buffy 

 whitish ; the ear-coverts dark brown on their upper parts ; checks 

 black, forming a broad moustache which extends down the sides of 

 the throat, becoming gradually broader till it unites on the fore neck 

 and forms a broad circular collar ; throat orange-yellow ; sides of 

 neck buffy whitish, streaked with black ; rest of under surface pale 

 fawn-buff, shading off lighter on the under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts white with dusky bases, the edge of the wing yellow : "bill 

 blackish, the lower mandible ashy ; feet brown ; iris brown "' 

 (Blanford). Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-6, tail 2-6, 

 tarsus 1-3. 



Hab. North-easteni Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Shoa (Harris). India Museum. 



d. (S ad. sk. Wadala plateau, April 9. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.]. 



3. Macronyx croceus. 



Alauda crocea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 365 (1816). 



Cape Lark, var. ;Q, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. vi. p. 294 (182.3). 



Macronyx flavigaster, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 215 (1837) ; Jard. S^ 

 Selhj, ni. Orn. (new ser.), i. pi. xxii. (c. 1838) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 247 

 (1850) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 317 ; Bocage, Jom. 

 Lisb. 1868, p. 48. 



Authus flavigaster, Gray, Gen. B. i.*p. 206 (1847) ; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 121 (18G7). 



Macronyx croceus, Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 23 (1844) ; id. Orn. 

 W.-Afr. pp. 73, 271 (1857) ; Gumey, Ibis, 18C0, p. 208 ; Mo7i- 

 teiro, Ibis, 1862, p. 334 ; Kirk, Ibis, 18G4, p. 318 ; Cab. in Von 

 der Decken's Reis. iii. p. 22 (1869) ; Hemil. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 

 p. 331 (1870); Finsch Sf Hartl. Vocj. Ostafr. p. 27t) (1870); 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 73 (1871) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 70 ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 73 ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche etc. p. 16 

 (1875) ; Reiche7i. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 46 ; id. Corresp. Afrik. Gesellsch. 

 Berlin, 1875, p. 177 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 208 ; Sharpe S,- Bouvier, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 43 (1876) ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1877, 

 p. 30; Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 220; Fischer 8f Reichen. J.f. 0. 1879, 

 p. 355 ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 297 (1881) ; Gumey, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 125 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 573 ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, vii. pt. 2, p. 99 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 543. 



Macronyx fiavicoUis {non Riipp.), Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. iv. 

 p. 50 (1850) ; Sjierling, Ibis, 1868, p. 290. 



Macronyx striolatus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 164 ; Nichols. P. Z. S. 

 1878, p. 356; Shar2)e, ed. LaiJarcTs B. S. Afr. p. 532 (1884). 



Macronyx capensis (non L.), Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 41 (1864) ; 

 Hartm. J. f. O. 1867, p. 241 ; Salmd. Rivist. Crit. Antin. p. 734 

 (1870). 



Anthus croceus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 252, no. 3662 (1869). 



Anthus striolatus, Gray, t. c. p. 252, no. 3665 (1869). 



Corydalla croceus, Bouvier, Cat. Coll. Oi~n. p. 54 (1874). 



