644 ALAUDID^. 



Adult male. Above light saudy isabulliue, not paler ou the head, 

 but slightly fulvescent on the hind neck ; forehead, lores, and a 

 tolerably detiucd eyebrow whitish ; feathers in front of the eye 

 dusky blackish ; sides of face whitish, the hinder ear-coverts washed 

 with isabelline ; entire under surface of body whitish, slightly 

 washed with isabelline on the breast, on each side of which is an 

 indistinct blackish patch : under wing-coverts white with a very 

 faint isabelline tinge ; upper wing-coverts sandy isabelline like the 

 hack, with light -whitish margins, mottled also by means of the grey 

 bases to the feathers ; quills greyish, slightly tipped with white 

 and margined with sand-colour on the outer web, the primaries 

 very narrowly bordered, but the secondaries very broadly, the inner- 

 most being entirely rufous sand-colour, with broad longitudinal 

 greyish centres ; the inner lining of the wing greyish, inclining to 

 white near the base of the inner web ; tail dark brown, tipped with 

 white on the inner web, the centre feathers grey with sandy-coloured 

 margins and tips ; the basal third of the tail-feathers isabelline, 

 inclining to whitish, and extending further up the outer web of the 

 external featliers. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3-25, 

 tail 1-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller in the 

 wing. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-05, tail 1*8, 

 tarsus 0"85. 



Hah. S.W. Africa. 



a-f. d 2 !^d. sk. Damara-Laud, April to June, Nov., Sharps Coll. 



Dec. (C.J. Anchrssou). 

 (J. Ad. sk. Uamara-Land (C. /. ^.). Shelley Coll. 



3. Ainmomanes ciiictura. 



Melauocurypha ciuctura, Gould, Voy. ' Ucaijlc,' Birds, p. f^7 (1841); 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 243 (1850). 

 Alauda areuicolor, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stochh. IBoO, 



p. 128. 

 Ammomanes pallida, Cah. Mzcs. Hein. Th. i. p. 125, note (1850) ; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 423 ; Leith Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 25 ; Heiiffl. 



J. f. 0. 1864, p. 450, 1868, p. 224. 

 Geocoraphus pallidus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 39 (1854). 

 Melauocorypha elegans, Brehm, Voc/elf. p. 122 (1855). 

 Ammomanes regulus, B]). C. R. xliv. p. 1066 ( 1847) ; Tristr. Ibis, 



1859, p. 423 ; Loclie, Kvpl. Sci. Alr/er., Ois. ii. p. 27 (1867) ; 



Gurnep,nis,187l,i^.-290. 

 Alauda elegans, Keulem. Nederl. Tijdschr. iii. p. 369 (1866). 

 Ammomanes elegans, i>^^. t. c. p. 1066 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. -34; 



Lochv, Eijil. Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 26 (1867). 

 Alauda lusitanica {nee Gm.), Wriyht, Ibis, 1864, p. 61 ; Salvad. Faun. 



Ital.jUcc. p. 133 (1871). 

 Mirafra cinctura, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7811 (1870). 

 Mirafra pallida. Gray, t. c. ii. p. 121, no. 7807 (1870). 

 Mirafra arenicolor, Gray, t. c. p. 122, no. 7812 ^1870). 

 Mirafi-a regulus, Gray, t. c. p. 122, no. 7813 (1870). 

 Ammomanes areuicolor, Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 137 (1872). 



