13 SIIRAFRA. 



603 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 

 0-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-9.5, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-9. 

 Hab. Java ; S. Borneo. 



(I. Ad. sk. 



f'- (S ad. sk. 

 c, d. (S 2 ad. sk. 

 e-k. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 /.-. Ad. sk. 



Java {Horsfield). 



Java (Biard). 

 Java {Diard). 

 Java. 

 Java. 



Banjennassing, S. Borneo 

 {J. Motley). 



India Museum. (Type 



of sjiecies.) 

 Seebobm Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 Wallace Coll. (Type of 



M. borneensis.) 



8. Mirafra secnnda. 



Mirafra horsfieldi, Gould, Handb. B. Amtr. i. p. 404 (I8G.5). 



Adult. Very similar to M. javanica, but smaller, and not so 

 streaked on the chest ; the wing more rufous on the shoulder, the 

 coverts being almost all uniform rufous, and not so mottled 'with 

 black bases as in the Java species. Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-S, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. South Australia, 



ft. Ad. sk. South Australia. 



b, c. Ad. sk. South Australia (J. T. Cock- 



erell). 

 d. Ad. sk. Austraha. 



Gould Coll. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Purchased. 



9. Mirafra cheniana. 



Mirafra cheniana, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 89. fig. 2 (184.3 err 

 pro fig. 1) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 644; id ed. lai/ard's B S 

 Afr. pp. 528, 852 (1867). "^ 



Megalophonus cheniauus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 (1844) ; Bp 

 Cunsp. i. p. 244 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 214 (1867) : 'Gray 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7817 (1870) ; Ai/rts, Ibis, 1871, p. 259- 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 644; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 286, 188o' 

 p. 264. ' 



Alauda cheniana, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 293 (1872). 



Adidt (type of species). Above dark brown, almost blackish, the 

 feathers margined with sandy rufous, especially broad on the hind 

 neck, some few of the scapular feathers with narrow fulvous tips • 

 wings rufous, the coverts having blackish bases, the greater series 

 dark brown, margined with rufous, shading off into fulvous on the 

 extreme edge ; quills dark brown, with very broad rufous maro-ins 

 the edges of the secondaries more fulvous ; upper tail-coverts dark 

 brown, with ashy-fulvous margins ; tail dark brown, the two centre 

 feathers margined with rufous, shading off into fulvous towards the 

 tips ; the two outermost feathers pure white, with a touch of brown 

 near tlie base of the outer one, but occupying the half of the inner 

 web of the penultimate feather for aU its length, as well as a short 



