61-1 



k' . Ad. fik. 



V, m', n . i 2 



ad. sk. 

 o . (S ad. sk. 



p, q- i 2 ad. 



sk. 

 »•', s'. c? 2 ad. sk. 



a. Ad. sk. 



u'-a" . (S ad. sk. 

 6", c". Ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 d". Ad. sk. 



e". Ad. sk. 

 /". cJ ad. ; g"~ 



k". 2 ad. sk. 

 I" . cJ ad. sk. 



m", n". cS ad. 



et juv. sk. 

 o" . 2 ad. sk. 

 p" . Ad. sk. 

 y", r". Ad. sk. 



s" , Ad. sk. 



ALAUDID.T'. 



Futteligurli Dist., Oct. {A. 



Anderso7i). 

 Mogulserai, Feb., Sept., Oct. 



(W.E. Brooks). 

 Mirzapur Dist., March (R. 



Thompson). 

 Muddapur, April, Sept. ( W. 



E. B.). 

 Assensole, Feb., April ( W. E. 



B.). 

 Manbhum, April (-R. C. 



Beavan). 

 Eaipur, Jan. to March. 

 Nagpar, July. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



S.E. Berar, Jan. 21 ( W. T. Tweeddale Coll. 



Blanford). 

 Chanda, Jan. ( W. T. Blanford) . Hume Coll. 

 Khandeish, Feb., May, July, Himie Coll, 



Nov. {J. Davidson). 

 MahabaleshvFur Hills, June (<S'. Hume Coll. 



B. Fab-bank). 

 Ahmednuggar,' July, Oct. {S. Tweeddale CoU. 



B. F.). 

 Uarwa, Deccan, March 29. 

 'DecciwT^Btirgess) . 

 Carnatic. 



Carnatic {Jerdon). 



Hume Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 T.C.Jerdon,Esq.[P.]. 

 (Tvpes of species.) 

 Gould CoU. 



IS. Mirafra aflanis*. 



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

 Orn. text to pi. 38 (1849) ; Blijth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 959 

 (1844) ; id. Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 133 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 243 (1850) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 475 

 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. p. 417 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 121, 

 no. 7801 (1870) ; Holdsiu. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 465 ; Hume, Nests 8f 

 Eggs Ind. B. p. 474 (1873) ; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 422, 1877, 

 p. 223 ; Fairb. t. c. p. 408 ; Legge, B. Ceglon, p. 634 (1879) ; Hmne, 

 Str. F. 1879, p. 108 ; Damson, Str. F. x. p. 404 (1883) ; Reid, Cat. 

 Lucknow Mus. p. 136 (1886). 



Adult male. Similar to 31. eriit]iro2')tera, but much larger ; the 

 primaries dark brown, externally and internally rufous, but the 

 latter colour not occupying the basal portion of these quills ; the 

 primary-coverts also dark brown, edged with rufous : " upper man- 

 dible dark brown, the margin and the lower mandible, with the 

 exception of the dusky tip, fleshy ; gape fleshy ; legs and feet fleshy, 

 edges of scales brownish ; eyelid brownish fleshy ; iris varying from 



* In the Seebobm Collection are two skins labelled "Valley of G-urias, 

 Kashmir." Although these two skins apparently stiU bear the collector's 

 original labels, the locality seems to me to be more than doubtful. They were 

 purchased of Mr. Whitely, of Woolwich. 



