618 ALAUDIDiE. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour, but a little smaller. 

 Total length 5'7 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 3'4, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-9, 



Adult in tvinter plumage. Paler and more mealy in colour than 

 the summer plumage, the grey collar round the hind neck being 

 very distinct, as well as the white eyebrow and the margins to the 

 wing-coverts and quills ; under surface of body white, tinged with 

 isabelline on the chest, flanks, and thighs, the chest with a few 

 narrow streaks of pale brown, the entire lining of the wing ashy, 

 as also the under wing-coverts, some of the latter margined with 

 sandy buff. 



Hah. From Damara-Land south to the Orange Eiver and 

 Griqualand. 



a. c? ad. sk. Orange River, June. Dr. Bradshaw [P.]. 



b, c, d. (S ad. Griqualand {T. C. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 

 sk. 



e,f. c? ? ad. sk. Great Namaqua-Land, June (C Sharpe Coll. 



J. Andersson). 

 ff,h,i. (J; k,l. Damara-Laod, July, Aug. (C. Sharpe Coll. 

 ? ad. sk. .;; A.). 



21. Mirafra sabota. 



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



Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 89. fig. 2 (1843, err. pro fig. 1) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 18U, p. 645 ; id. ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 626 (1884) ; 



id. in Gates' s Matahele-Land, App. p. 318 (1881) ; Reichenh. J.f. 



O. 1687, p. 74. 

 Megalophouus sabota, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 244 (1850) : Layard, 'B. S. Afr. p. 213 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 122, no. 7821 (1870). 

 Megalophonus nsevius (nee Strickl.), Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 259, 1873, 



p. 286, 1880, p. 104. _ 

 Alauda nasvia (nee Strickl.), Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 283. 

 Mirafra naevia (nee Strickl.), Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 350 ; Ayres, Ibis, 



1886, p. 290. 



Adult male. Similar to M. ncevia, but smaller, and with a very 

 much smaller bill, and having the breast more thickly spotted with 

 black : " upper mandible and tip of lower one light reddish brown, 

 the rest of the lower one sienna-yellow ; legs, toes, and claws sienna- 

 yellow, tinted witli fleshy red, the claws faintly shaded with light 

 reddish brown " (*S'/r A. Smith). Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 3-3, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 5*5 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 3-25, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-9. 



Nab. South-eastern Africa, from the Orange Free State to the 

 Mashoona country, and extending into Masai-Land in Eastern 

 Africa. 



a, b, c, d. Ad. sk. North of Latakoo. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



e. $ juv. sk. Orange Free State (T. C. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



