538 ALAUDIDiE. 



Adult male. Entirely bright sandy rufous above, with a vinous 

 shade, and with darker rufous shaft-lines to some of the dorsal 

 feathers ; wing-coverts entirely sandy rufous like the back ; quills 

 dusky bi'own, externally sandy rufous and edged with white at the 

 ends, the inner secondaries entirely sandj^ rufous, the tirst primary 

 externally edged with white ; centre tail-feathers sandy rufous with 

 black shaft-stripes, the remainder black, the penultimate feather 

 edged with white near the end of the outer web, the outermost one 

 white for nearly the whole extent of the outer web ; crown of head 

 sandy rufous like the back, with a vinous tinge ; forehead and eye- 

 brow white, succeeded by a broad band of black across the fore part 

 of the crown, continued into two long ear-tufts above the ear-coverts 

 and reaching to the sides of the nape ; nasal plumes, lores, feathers 

 below the eye, fore part of ear-coverts black, this black patch extend- 

 ing down the centre of the cheeks ; hinder ear-coverts and adjacent 

 sides of neck, as well as the remainder of the- cheeks and throat, 

 white ; a very broad cresccntic band of black on the lower throat 

 and fore neck ; remainder of under surface from the chest downwards 

 white, the sides of the breast vinous-sandy, and the sides of the 

 body and thighs washed with vinous ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, the edge of the wing sandy : quills dusky below, 

 ashy isabelline along the inner web : " bill dusky horn-colour, paler 

 on the mandible; feet pale dusky horn-colour" (Foji Heuglin). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3'85, tail 2-4, tarsus OS. 



In breeding-plumage the vinaceous colour of the upper parts 

 becomes obliterated and the back is of a rufous-sandy colour ; the 

 head sometimes shows a white band behind the black frontal one. 



ifab. Algeria and Arabia. Said to occur in Southern Spain. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Algerian Sahara (Locke). Shelley Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Algeria. Sharpe Coll. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Desert north of El Baadj, Jan. 17 Salvin-Qodman Coll. 



(H. B. Tristram), 



4. Otocorys leucolaBma *. 



Otocoris occidentalis [nee M'C'all), Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. p. 318 



(1852). 

 Otocorys alpestris {nee L.), Neivb. P. JR. li. Hep. vi. p. 88 (1857). 

 Eremophila cornuta {nee IJ'ils.), Baird, P. R. R. Rep. x., Birds, p. 13, 



pi. 32 (1859) ; Brown, Ibis, 1808, p. 421 : Dall lV Bann. Tr. Chicago 



Acad. i. p. 281 (1869). 

 Eremophila alpestris («ec X.), Allen, Bidl. Mus. C. Z. Cambr. iii. 



p. 176 (1872). 

 Eremophila alpestris, var. occidentalis, Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridgw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. ii. p. 140 (1874). 

 Eremophila alpestris, ^. leucolsema. Coves, B. N.- West, p. 38 (1874) ; 



Hensh. Rep. IQQth Merid. p. 309 (1875). 



* The synonymy of this species is chiefly derived from the ^vritings of 

 Dr. Elliott ijoues andMr. Henshaw, who have examined the specimens mentioned 

 iu the books quoted. 



