2. AL^MON. 521 



V, w. Ad. sk. Upper Sind, Jan. {A. 0. H.). Hume Coll. 



x-i'. d ; k'-m'. 5 yiud, Dec, Jan., Feb. {A. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. O. H.). 



n'-p'. Ad. sk. West of Kotri, Nov., Dec. Himie Coll. 



q . Ad. sk. Culch. Hume Coll. 



2. Alaemon semitorquata. 



Certbilauda semitorquata, Smith, Hep. Exped. Ccntr. Afr. p. 47 



(1886) ; Gruij, Gen. £. ii. p. 383 (18-44) ; Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. 



pi. 106. fig. -2 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850) ; Mont. P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 94 ; Lnijard, B. S. Afr. p. 216 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 120, no. 7790 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 71 (1871) ; 



Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 201 (1871) ; Buckley, Ibis, 



1874, p. 383 ; Sharpe, in Gates' Matabele-Land, App. p. 317 (1881). 

 Certbilauda rufopalliata, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1836, Ois. pi. 59; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 383 (1844). 

 Certbilauda subcoronata, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 90. fig. 2 



(1843); Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 23; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 217 (1867); Gray, Hand-l. B.ii. p. 121, 



no. 7793 (1870). 

 Chersomanes subcoronata, Cab. Mtts. Hein. Tb. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Alsemon rufopalliata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 39 (1854). 

 Certbilauda coronata, Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 371. 

 Alauda semitorquata, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 300 (1872). 

 Alauda subcoronata, Giebel, t. c. p. .301 (1872). 

 Alaemon semitorquata, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 620 ; id. ed. Layard' s 



B. S. Afr. p. 499 (1884). 



Adult female in simmier plitmar/e. General colour above clear 

 vinous brown, Tvith distinct black stripes, tbe hind neck indistinctly 

 ashy grey ; lower back and rump the same as the rest of the upper 

 surface, and streaked in the same manner ; irpper tail-coverts dark 

 brown with rufescent margins ; upper wing-coverts and quills dark 

 brown, with broad rufous margins; ear-coverts deep rufous, with 

 slight rufous shaft-streaks ; cheeks and throat white, with a few 

 black spots ; under surface of body isabelline, with a tinge of 

 vinous on the flanks ; the breast broadly streaked with black ; 

 under wing-coverts deep isabelline vinous. Total length 6'9-7"3 

 inches, culmen 0-75-0-8, wing 3-7-3-75, tail 3-0o-3-2, tarsus I'O- 

 1-1. 



The adidt female in winter 2'>lumacje differs from the summer 

 plumage in being sandy isabelline, with fulvous margins to most of 

 the dorsal feathers ; tbe head and interscapulary region with small 

 black shaft-stripes ; hind neck decidedly ashy grey, contrasting with 

 the head ; lower back and rump entirely uniform isabelline, with no 

 shaft-streaks; upper tail-coverts light ash-colour, paler than the 

 tail, and margined with whitish ; upper wing-coverts and quills 

 brown, broadly margined with pale sandy, shading off into white 

 on the margins; ear-coverts very pale sandy; cheeks and throat 

 pure white, unspotted : under surface of body white, with a few 

 triangular spots of dusky black on the throat ; under wing-coverts 

 very pale isabelline sand-colour. 



The male is like the female in plumage, but is larger, and has 



