514 ALAXJDID^. 



1. CERTHILAUDA. ^^^^ 



CertLilauda, Swains. Zool. Jom-n. iii. p. 344 (1827) .... C. capensis. 



Thinotretis, Glo(/er, Handh. Natury. p. 2G6 (1842) .... C. capensis. 



Chersomanes, Cah. Miis. Iliiv. Tb. i. p. 126 (1850) .... C. rufula. 

 To.\ocorys {710m. emend.), Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 155 



(1872) C. capensis. 



Foot of Certhilauda capensis, to show straight hind claw. 

 Range. Confined to South Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tso -white spots at the end of the tail-featheis ; 



flanks a9 broadly streaked and spotted as the 



breast capensis, p. 514. 



b. Large white spots at the end of the tail-feathers ; 



spots confined to the throat and chest rufxda, p. 515. 



1. Certhilauda capensis. 



Le Sirli du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Dauhent. PI. Enl. x. pi. 712 ; 



Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 65 (1778). 

 Alauda capensis, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 45 (178.3). 

 African Lark, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 389 (1783). 

 Alauda africana, Gm. S. N. i. p. 798 (1788) ; Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii. 



pi. clix. (1825). 

 L'Alouette Sirli, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 192 (1805); Sundev. 



Crit. om Levaill. p. 46 (1857). 

 Alauda duponti (nee V.), Roiix, Orn. Prov. pi. 186; Werner, Atlas, 



Granivores, pi. 2 (1827). 

 Certhilauda longirostris, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 293 (1837). 

 Certhilauda africana, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 383 (1844) ; Smith, III. 



Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. xc. fig-. 1 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 



(1850); Gurtietj, Ibis, 1800, p. 208; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 217 



(1867) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 71 (1871). 

 Chersomanes africana, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Ala3mon africana, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 39 (1854). 

 Certhilauda capensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 120, no. 7788 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 615 ; id. ed. Lnyard's B. S. Afr. p. 494 



(1884). 



