0. srizocoRYs. 505 



coverts brown, broadly margined with sandy buff, the lesser and 

 median scries so broadly as nearly to obscure the dark brown 

 centres to the feathers, the greater coverts with a slight greyish 

 shade on their outer margins ; quills lighter brown, with a slight 

 ashy shade, the feathers margined with sandy buff, paling on the 

 extreme edge of the feather, the outer edge of the first primary 

 sandy white for nearly the entire length of the quill ; tail blackish, 

 tipped with dull white, with ashy-fulvous margins, broader on the 

 centre feathers, which are paler and nearly uniform brown, the two 

 outer feathers margined with sandy buff, occupying part of the 

 inner web and the tip of the outermost ; a distinct line of white 

 over and under the eye, with a small patch of blackish feathers in 

 front of the latter ; ear-coverts browai, blackish on upper margin ; 

 cheeks white, washed with pale brown on hinder margin, and 

 spotted with black, a narrow line of which I'uns from the gape to 

 the ear-coverts ; throat pure white, with a few black S|)ots on lower 

 portion ; rest of under surface of body sandy rufous, paler and more 

 fulvous on the lower abdomen, the fore neck and chest rather 

 largely spotted with triangular spots of blackish brown ; under 

 wing- coverts sandy buff, the lower series inclining to ashy and re- 

 sembling the inner lining of the wing : " bill pale ashy, with the 

 ridge very light brown ; tarsi and feet pale flesh-colour ; iris hazel " 

 {T. Ai/res). Total length -i'T inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3, tail 

 1"7''', tarsus 0'75. 



For remarks on the lumter plumage and changes undergone by 

 this species I must refer to my paper on African Larks (P. Z. S. 

 1874-, p. 631), as no new material has come to hand since that 



Tounf/. Above dark brown, the feathers washed with saudy colour 

 and tipped with Avhite, the hind neck inclining to ashy grey, the 

 white tips almost imperceptible ; wing-coverts dull brown, margined 

 with sand-colour, and ending in a white tip ; quills and tail much 

 as in adult, but incliuing to whitish at the tip of the feathers ; lores 

 dusky blackish ; sides of face nearly uniform brown, with a blackish 

 sti'eak running along the upper margin of the ear-coverts and down 

 the checks ; under surface pale isabelline, the throat spotted with 

 dusky, and having on each side a moustachial streak of the same, 

 the breast inclining to sandy brown on the sides and obscurely 

 spotted with dusky. 



Mr. Andersson observes that the "iris is brown ; the legs and bill 

 flesh-coloured, but the lower mandible paler and more livid than 

 the upper." 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. 2ad.sk. Potchefstroom, June 14 (T. ^^/r-s'). Shnrpe Coll. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Meg-aliesberg, Oct. 28 (J. Tra/ilbfn/). Sharpe Coll 

 c,d,e. c? 2 ad. et Great Namaqua-Land, Maj, June Sharpe Coll. 



juv. ;/. 2 ad. sk. (C J. Andcrssuii) . 



(/. 2 ad. sk. Onduuga, Ovampo-Land, Nov. (C. Sliarpe Coll 



J. A.). 



