13. MIRAFRA. 607 



Alauda praestig-iatrix, Heupl. Syst. Uehers. p. 43 (1856); ? Ant in. 



Cat. desert: Ucc. p. 41 (1864). 

 Melanocorypha ferruoinea, Brehm, J f. O. 18.57, p. 82. 

 Calandrella ferruginea, Brehm, Nauni. 1856, p. 375. 

 Amiuomanes cinnamomea, Bp. Notes Delattre, p. 61. 

 Geocoraplms cordofauicus, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 227 ; id. Or/i. 



N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 687 (1872). 



Adult (type of species). Light ciuQamon-nifous, with s:iii ly-white 

 margins to manj- of the dorsal feathers ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills cinuamon-rufous, the inner secondaries broadlj' edgel with 

 sandy white all round, with a suliterminal line of black ; the pri- 

 maries with pale dusky brown tips ; centre tail-feathers cinnamon 

 like the back, dusky along the shaft ; the rest of the feathers 

 dark brown with sandy-buff edges and tips ; the outer feather 

 almost entirely white, with an oblique dusky mark along the inner 

 web, the penultimate feather dusky brown, white on the outer web 

 and across the tip of the inner one ; head like the back ; lores and 

 eyebrow whitish ; ear-coverts cinnamon-rufous, the lower portion 

 whitish, as also the feathers below the eye ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body white, with a few tiny spots of dusky cinnamon on 

 the chest ; the sides of the latter pale cinnamon ; sides of body and 

 danks also washed with pale cinnamon ; under wing-coverts Isabel- 

 line buff; quills rufous below with dusky tips. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0'55, wing3'2, tail 2, tarsus 0"9. 



Ifab. Kordofan and Senaar, 



a. Ad. sk. Kordofan. H. E. Strickland, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



14. Mirafra africana. 



Mirafra africana. Smith, Rep. Exped. C. Afr., App. p. 47 (1836) ; id. 



III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 88. fig. 1 (184.3) ; Sha7-pe, P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 642 ; Ai/res, Ibis, 1876, p. 432 ; Bocaye, Orn. Amjola, p. 374 



(1881) ; Sharpe i?i Oates' Matahele-Land, App. p. 317 (1881) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 350 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



pp. 519, 851 (1884). 

 Alauda planicola, Licht. Verz. Viiy. Kaffernl. p. 14 (1842, descr. 



nulla). 

 Megalophonus africanus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 (1844) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 213 (1867). 

 Megalophonus occidentalis, Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 153 (1857); 



Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 48 (IStiS). 

 Megalophonus rostratus, Ilartl. Ibis, 1863, p. 326, pi. ix. ; layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 212 (1867). 

 Megalophonus planicola, Finsch Sf Ilartl. Viiy. Ostafr. p. 463 



(1870); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7810 (1870); Ayres, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 259, 1880, p. 104; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 137; 



Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 74. 

 Alauda africana, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 71 (1871); Buckley, Ibis, 



1874, p. 384. 

 Megalophonus africanoides [lapsu), Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 81. 



