G02 ALATDIDJE, 



Adult feuicde. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5"5 

 inches, culmen U'55, wing 2-9, tail 1'75, tarsus 0-85, 



Young. Very tawny in colour, especially below, the feathers 

 having light edgings to the dorsal plumes, producing a scaly ap- 

 pearance. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



a. 2 ad. ; b. Juv. sk. Madagascar. Sharpe Coll. 



c, d, e, f. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Shelley Coll. 



f/. cJ; /i, i. $ ad.; A-. Ankafana Forest, Rev. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



Juv. sk. Betsileo. 



/, ?H. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Mr. Gerrard [C] 



7. Mirafra javanica. 



Mirafia javanica, Ilorsf. Trans. Liiui. Soc. xiii. p. 1.59 (1820) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 383 (1844) ; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 243 (1850) ; Blijih, 

 J. A. S. Bene/, xxiv. p. 255 (1855) ; Ilorsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. Mm. 

 E. I. Co. ii. p. 474 (1856) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 121, no. 7796 



(1870) ; Sulvad. Ucc. Born. p. 262 (1874) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 154 ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Kederl. Ind. .\liii. p. 107 (1884), 

 xlvi. p. 234 (1887). 



Alauda mirafia, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 305. fig. 2 (1824). 

 Geoc(jraphus javauicus, Cab. Arch.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 328; id. Mus. 



Ilein. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Mirafra htrneensis, Sicinh. Ann. S)- May. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. p. 257 



(1871) ; Sulvad. Ucc. Born. p. 263 (1874) ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. 

 Nederl. Ind. xlvi. p. 234 (1887). 



Adidt male. General colour ahove dark brown, with blackish 

 centres to the feathers, the dorsal feathers margined with rufous, 

 less distinct on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; a slightly paler 

 mantle of more vinous brown, the feathers mesially streaked with 

 blackish ; wings rufous, the median and greater coverts with black 

 bases, the rufous margins very broad ; bastard-wing blackish, with 

 tawny-buff edges ; primary-coverts rufous, dusky blackish on the 

 inner webs ; quills blackish, externally rufous, the secondaries 

 blackish, with narrow rufous margins, which extend round both 

 webs of the innermost ones ; tail-feathers dark brown, with lighter 

 brown edges, the penultimate feather huffy white for the whole of 

 the outer web, the external feather almost entirely white, excepting 

 the oblique dusky mark on the inner web towards the base ; crown 

 of head dark brown, broadly streaked with black hke the back ; 

 lores and a narrow eyebrow tawny rufous ; feathers round eye, sides 

 of face, and ear-coverts tawny rufous, slightly spotted with brown ; 

 cheeks and throat huffy white, as also the sides of the neck ; fore 

 neck and rest of under surface of body isabelline buff, washed with 

 tawny rufous, the fore neck and chest with triangular spots of dark 

 brown, forming larger and more longitudinal streaks on the sides of 

 the latter ; flanks with a few longitudinal streaks of dusky brown ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous : quills below dusky brown, with broad 

 rufous margins along the inner edge. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen Q-G, wing 2-85, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-9. 



