l.'J. MIRAFEA. 



593 



y, c'. c? ; d', e . Sehwan, Dec, Jan. (W. T. Bhtn- Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. furd 4'- A. O. H.). 



f. $ ad. sk. Munchur Lake, Jau 22 (W. T. India Mus. 



Blanford) . 

 (/, h'. 2 ad. sk. Sind, Jan. (Mr. F. Dm/). Hume Coll. 



i', k'. 2 ad. sk. Guzerat, May (JT. T. Blanford). Hume Coll. 

 v. c5"; in-o. 2 Karachi, April (^. ^. Butler). Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. 

 p'. S ad. sk. Delhi, Dec. 29 {C. T. Bingham). Hume Coll. 



q. S ad. sk. R. Jumna, June 26 ( JT. ^. Hume Coll. 



Brooks). 



Subsp. /3. Alaudula leucophaea. 



Calandrella leucophasa, Severfz. Tiirkest. Jevotn. p. 142 (1873) ; Giyl. 



Av^f.Ital. p. 61 (1886). 

 Calandrella pispoletta, Cab. {nee Pall.), Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 182. 

 Alauda pispoletta, var. leucophsea, Seeh. Hist. Br. B. iv. p. 275, 



note (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to A. adamsi, but larger, and distinguished 

 by the much greater extent of white on the outer tail-feather, which 

 has only an oblique dusky mark on the inner web. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen O'o, wing 3-9, tail 2-35, tarsus O'To. 



Hah. Turkestan. 



a, b. Ad. 



Turkestan (Dr. Severtzoff). 



Seebohm Coll. 



13. MIRAFRA*. 



Mirafra, Horsf. Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 159 (1820). . . . M. javanica. 

 Brachonyx, Swains. Zuol. Journ. iii. p. 344 (1827, nee 



Schmih. 1826) M. apiata. 



Corypha, Grai/, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 48 M. apiata. 



Megalophonus, Grat/, List Gen. B. 1841, p. 62 M. apiata. 



Plocealauda, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zoot. Misc. p. 84 (1844). . M. assamica. 



Geocoraphus, Cab. Arch.f. Nat. xiii. p. 328 (1847) .... M. javanica. 



* The following species are unknown to me : — 



1. Mirafra plebeia. 



Alauda (Megalophonus) plebeia, Cab. J.f. O. 1875, p. 237 ; Eeichen. J.f. 0. 



1877, p. 29. 

 Alauda plebeia, Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 660 (1881). 



Hah. Angola. 



As the description does not contain any iuforiuation about the colour of the 

 imder wing-coverts, I have not been able to place this species in tlie ' Key.' 

 Cabanis refers to it as an allj of A. grayi, but the latter is a true Ammomaiies. 



2. Mirafra angolexsis. 



Mirafra angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 60 ; id. Orn. Angola, 

 p. 560(1881). 



Hah. Caconda, Benguela. 



Probably near M. fringillaris, Sunder. 



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