16. HELIOCORYS. 



623 



y'. Ad. sk. Kondapur, June {S. B. Fair- 



bank). 

 a', c? ; a", b". 2 Ahmednup-fjur, Jidy (S. B. 



ad. sk. Fail-bank). 



c''-f''. cJ; !/"• $ad. Belgaum, April, June, July 



sk. Sept. {F. A. Butler). 



h"-k". c? ad. ; /", Mysore, May, Aug. ( W. 



m''. 5 ad. sk. Davison), 



n'', o". c? 5 ad. sk. Bauo-alore, Aug. (R. G. W. 



R). 

 p",q". Ad.sk. Madras. 



r". Ad. sk. 



Madras (Jerdon). 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



T. C. Jerdon, Esq. 



[P.]. ^ 

 (Types of M. hayi.) 

 Gould Coll. 



16. HELIOCORYS. 



1. Head of Heliocorys modest a, to show form of crest. 



2. Wing of ditto, to show first primary. 



Range. Confined to Equatorial Africa, 



1. Heliocorys modesta. 



Galerita modesta, Heugl. J.f. O. 1864, p. 274; Shelley, P. Z. S. 



1888, p. 28. 

 Geocoraphus modestus, Heugl. J.f. O. 18G8, p. 229 ; id. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 691, tab. xxiii. (1871). 

 Alauda modesta, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 119, no. 7772 (1870). 

 Mirafra bucolica, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 327 (1886) ; Shelley, 



P. Z. S. 1888, p. 28. 

 Mirafra modesta, Hartl. t. c. p. 328. 



Adult male. Mottled above like an ordinary Lark, the feathers 

 being sandy buff with black centres ; the mantle rather lighter 

 than the rest of the back ; the upper tail-coverts rufescent ; 

 wing-coverts dusky brown with sand^'-buff margins, inclining 

 to ashy whitish on the edges of the median and greater coverts ; 



