612 ALAUDID^. 



16. Mirafra damarensis *. 

 Mirafra damarensis, S/iarpe, F, Z. S. 1874, p. 650, pi. Ixxv. fig. 2. 



Adult male in winter- ithmvtge (type of species). Similar to 

 M. assamica, but very much paler aud more pearly grey, and having 

 the spots on the chest very minute and indistinct ; primary-coverts 

 almost entirely rufous, -with concealed dusky brown on the inner 

 webs ; pinmaries entirely rufous at base, this colour extending 

 across both webs, and only shaded with dusky brown along the 

 shaft. Total length 5*5 inches, culmeu 0'65, wing 3'45, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Ovampo-Land, S.W. Africa. 



a, h. (S ad. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Oct., Nov. Sharpe Coll. 



(C. J. Andcrsson). (Types of species.) 



17. Mirafra erythroptera. 



Mirafra javanica (nee Hursf.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 33 (1840). 

 Mirafra erythroptera, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 136 (1844) ; id. III. 



Ind. Or?i. pi. 38 (1849) ; J^li/fh, J. A. S. Bene/, xiii. p. 958 (1844) ; 



Gra!/, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 18 (1849) ; Bbjth, 'Cat. B. 3Ius. As. Soc. 



p. 133 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 243 (1850) ; Hor.<<f. S^- Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 474 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 418 (1863) ; 



Bhjth, Ibis, 1867, p. 45 ; Beamn, Ibis, 1868, p. 179 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 121, no. 7800 (1870) ; Haxjes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 414; 



Adam, Str. F. 1873, p. 388; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, p. 421 ; Bidler, 



Sir. F. 1875, p. 499 ; Daiidson Sf Wendell, Str. F. 1877, p. 85 ; 



Ball, t. c. p. 223 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 48 (1879) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 108 ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 63 (1880) ; 



Reid, Str. F. x. p. 57 (l881) ; Davids, t. c. p. 314 ; Swinh. ^- Barnes, 



Ibis, 1885, p. 129 ; Beid, Cat. Lucknow Mus. p. 138 (1886) ; 



Macgr. Str. F. p. 440 (1887). 



Adult male. Light sandy brown, plentifully mottled with dark 

 brown centres to the feathers ; the lower back and rump more 

 uniform brown, the upper tail-coverts with dusky centres ; head a 

 little more rufous on the crown, but mottled like the back with 

 blackish centres ; round the hind neck a slight indication of a pale 

 ashy collar like the sides of the neck ; wing-coverts like the back 

 with dusky centres and pale edges of sandy white, all distinctly 

 washed with sandy rufous near the ends ; primary-coverts deep 

 cinnamon-rufous with blackish shafts ; quills also entirely cinnamon- 

 rufous, with dusky shafts and a dusky brown mark near the end of 



* The following species is probably allied to M. damarensis. 

 Mirafra pcecilosterna. 

 Alauda pcecilosterna, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 155 ; id. J. f. 0. 



1879, p. 353. 

 Megalophonus massaicus, Fischer if- Eeichen. J.f. 0. 1884, p. 55. 

 Megalophonas poecilosterna, Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 318 (1884) ; 

 id. J.f. 0. 1885, p. 137. 

 Hah. Eastern Africa. 



