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19. CALENDULA. 



Type. 



Calendula, Sioains. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837) C. crassirostris. 



Eraua, Grai/, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 48 C. crassirostris. 



Foot of CahiuJuhi crassirostris:. 

 Range. Coiifiucd to South Africa. 



1. Calendula crassirostris. 



Alouette a gros bee, Leuaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 193 (1805) ; Sundev. 



Krit. om Leoaill. p. 4i3 (1857). 

 Alauda crassirostris, lleill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nut. i. p. 373 (1816) ; 



Oral/, Gen. B. ii. p. 380 (1844) ; Layard, D. S. Afr. p. 208 (1807) ; 



Grat/, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 119, no. 7773 (1870); Shelley, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 81. 

 Alauda magnirostris, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 27 (1826). 

 Melauocorypha crassirostris, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322. 

 Caleudala magnirostris, Stvai?is. Classif. B. ii. p. 292 (1837). 

 Erana crassirostris. Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p 48. 

 Megaloplionus crassirostris, Bp. Consp.i.p. 243 (1850). 

 Galerita crassirostris, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854). 

 Calendula crassirostris, Gurney in Andevsson\^ B. Dam.-Ld. p. I'.t5 



(1872) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 636 ; id. ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. 



p. 513 (1884). 

 Ammomaues crassirostris, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 72 (1872). 



Adult. Above dark brown, the feathers tolerably broadly margined 

 with sandy fulvous, getting lighter on the extreme edge of the 

 feather, the lower back and rump ashy brown, more uniform, or 

 having only a few central streaks of dark brown, on the lower back ; 

 head rather lighter brown than the rest of the upi>er surface, the 

 dark brown central streaks rather narrower ; hind neck inclining 

 to ashy fulvous and minutel)' streaked with dark brown ; wing- 

 coverts dark brown, somewhat shaded with ashy and rather broadly 

 margined with sandy fulvous on the median and lesser coverts, the 

 greater series margined with ashy, but without such distinct edges 

 of sandy buff as the other series ; (]uills brown, narrowly tipped and 

 margined on the outer web with sandy white, the secondaries 

 distinctly shaded with grey ; upper tail-coverts ash)- brown shaded 

 with sandv and streaked with dark brown down the centres of the 



