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secondaries dark brown in the centre and at entire base of the 

 feathers, with only a few impei feet radiations of black near the tip ; 

 tail dark brown, tipped witli white, the centre feathers clearly washed 

 with grey as well as slightly tinged with rufous, and plainly marked 

 with blackish radiations and spots near the shafts ; eyebrow ashy 

 fulvous ; under surface ashy fulvous, concealing fawn-coloured 

 bases to the feathers, the chest-spots much obscured. 

 Hab. Cape Colony. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Cape Colony {E. L. Lai/ard). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Eytou Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape Town. C. J. Andersson [C.]. 



e. fS imm. sk. Stellendorf, Cape Colony, Shelley Coll. 



Jan. 22 {6. K S ). 



3. Mirafra buckleyi. 



Calandrella bucklevi, Shel/ei/, Ibis, 1873, p. 142. 

 Megalophonus buckleyi, Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 582. 



^(?M?< (type of species). General colour above brown, with ashy 

 margins to the feathers; the mantle vinous, with dusky brown 

 centres to the feathers ; the head like the back, and the hinder 

 crown and nape vinous, also streaked with dusky brown ; wing- 

 coverts and quills brown, edged with ashy, tlie greater coverts with 

 pale vinous buff and having a faint subterminal shade of black ; 

 primaries narrowly edged with vinous buff; centre tail-feathers 

 light rufous, with longitudinal blackish centres, rather broad ; the 

 remainder of the feathers dark brown, with ashy fulvous margins, 

 the penultimate feather broadly edged with tawny buff, the outer- 

 most one entirely tawny buff excepting for an oblique mark of 

 dusky brown on the inner web ; upper tail-coverts sandy vinous, 

 with dusky brown centres ; lores and a distinct eyebrow sandy 

 vinous ; feathers below the eye whitish ; ear-coverts sandy rufous, 

 washed with dusky brown at the ends of the feathers ; cheeks, 

 throat, and underparts sandy buff, paler on the former, the fore 

 neck and chest washed with vinous, and sparsely marked with 

 triangular spots of brown ; the flanks inclining to tawny buff ; the 

 abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts isabelline ; on each side of 

 the fore neck a patch of dusky brown, as in a CulandrJla ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries tawny buff; quills dusky brown, rufes- 

 cent along the inner web : " bill brownish flesh-colour, shading into 

 dark brown towards the culmcu and the end of the lower mandible ; 

 tarsi, feet, and claws tlesh-colour ; iris brown" {G. E. Shelley). 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-85, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-S5. 



Hah. W. Africa : plains of Accra to the Kiger district. 



a. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. {T. E. Buckley). Shelley Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. {G. E. S.). Shelley Coll. 

 f/. Ad. sk. Accra (C/sA'/(er). Shelley Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Accra (/. Smith). Sharpe Coll. 



