20. AMMOMANES. 649 



Megaloplionus ervtlirochlamvs, Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 103, pi. iii. 



fig. 2, 1S78, p. 1^98. 

 Ammomanes erj'tlivochlamj's, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 620 ; id. ed. 



Layard's B. S. Afi: p. 506 (1884). 



Adult male in winter plumage. Above uniform pale fawn-colour, 

 with distinct shaft-stripes of dull rufous on some of the feathers of 

 the head and back ; wing-coverts pale fawn like the back, but with 

 pale yellowish-buff margins to the feathers : quills pale brown, 

 broadly margined with fawn-colour, the secondaries more broadly, 

 the innermost being coloured like the wing-coverts and margined in 

 the same manner with yellowish buff; tail dark brown, narrowly 

 margined with fawn-colour, occupying the entire outer web 

 of the last tail-feather, and running round the tip and up the 

 margin of the inner web of this and the penultimate feather ; the 

 two centre feathers bleached fawn-colour, paler than the back ; 

 lores, feathers below and above the eye, forming an eyebrow, and 

 cheeks white, the ear-coverts pale fawn-colour like the back ; under 

 surface of body creamy white, washed witli fawn-colour on the sides 

 of the body, the chest marked with triangular markings of pale 

 brown ; thighs pale fawn ; under tail- coverts creamy white ; under 

 wing-coverts buffy whitish, the greater series pale ashy brown, the 

 outer plumes fawn-coloured ; inner liniug of wing also pale ashy 

 brown, inclining to pale fawn-colour at base of inner web : " bill 

 dusky, under mandible paler ; feet pale brown ; iris light dusky 

 hazel" {T. Ayres). Total length 6-5 inches, culmcn O'To, wing 

 3-6, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-05. 



Summer plumage. Deeper cinnamon above, the quills and coverts 

 all being edged with the same dark colour ; the tail broadly edged 

 and tipped with cinnamon-rufous, the outermost feathers not paler- 

 margined, the two centre ones being almost entirely cinnamon, 

 with a broad streak of greyish black down the middle ; a greyish 

 shade on the hind neck, which is not seen in the winter dress ; 

 lores, eyebrow, sides of face, and underparts generally washed with 

 yellowish ; the chest with more numerous and more distinct 

 markings. 



Hah. Southern Africa, from the Transvaal to Damara-Land. 



fl.Juv.sk. Damara-Land. C. J. Anderssnii [C.]. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. Walwisch Bay, May {C. J. Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson). 

 e,f- 6 $ ad. sk. Damara-Land, Nov. (A.vel Shelley Coll. 



Urickson). 



8. Ammomanes ferruginea. 



Alauda ferruginea. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 29 (1830) ; 



Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 258 ; Lmjavd, B. S. Afr. p. 208 (1867). 

 Megalophouus ferrugineus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 244 (1850) ; Gray, 



Iland-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7818 ( 1870). 

 Anunomaues ferruginea, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 627; id. ed. Lai/iird'.'i 



B. S. Afr. p. 504 (1884). 



Adult (type of species). Similar to A. eri/tJirocMamt/s, but larger 



