524 ALAUDID^. 



edgings, the sides of the body more sparsely mottled on the flanks, 

 where, however, tlie spots are still rounded. 



Hah. Interior of the Cape Colony to Namaqua-Laud. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape Colony {E. L. Layard). Sbarpe Coll. 



b, c. Ad. et inim. " Karoo Plains between the Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 sk. Oliphant and Orange (Types of A. codea.) 



Rivers." 



d,e. Ad.sk. "Between the Berg and Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



Orange Rivers." (Types of A. layepa *.) 



f-h. Ad. sk. Berg River {E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



i-l. Ad.etjuv.sk. 'Karoo {E. L. Layni-d). Sal vin-Godmau Coll. 



?«,. Ad; sk. Svvellendam (E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



n. Ad. sk. Cape Town (Butler). Sharpe Coll. 



0, p. S 2 fid. sk. Grootberg, Little Namaqua- Sharpe Coll. 



Land, July 29 (C. J. 



Andersson). 



3. HETEROCORYS. 



Type. 

 Heterocorys, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. (525 H. breviunguis. 



Foot of Heterocorys breviimgius, to show hind claw. 

 Range. Confined to South Africa. 



1. Heterocorys breviunguis. 



Alauda breviunguis, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 99. 

 Certhilauda breviunguis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 121, no. 7792 (1870). 

 Megalophonus pyrrhonotus (nee Bp.), Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 123, 



no. 7827 (1870). 

 Heterocorys breviunguis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 628, pi. Ixxvi. 



fig. 1 ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 503 (1884). 



* When I wrote about the South-African Larks in 1874, I believed that the 

 Museum did not possess the types of some of Sir A. Smith's species, as the 

 figures in the plates were so unlike the specimens. Subsequent experience has 

 taught me that the figures of this work are generally such feeble representations 

 of the species that very few of the specimens can actually be recognized from 

 their portraits, but it may reasonably be supposed that every actual type from 

 Smith's collection was transferred to the British Museum. 



