652 ALATJDID.5;. 



externally edged with brown ; upper tail-coverts black ; centre tail- 

 feathers brown, the remainder of the tail black ; head all round and 

 under surface of body black: "bill light horn-colour, darkest 

 above; legs and toes light flesh-colour" (C. J. Andersson): "iris 

 dark hazel '' ( W. Lucas). Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 3-1, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-G. 



AJidt female. Dusky brown above, the head and hind neck being 

 streaked with oohreous-butf margins to the feathers ; upper tail- 

 coverts also sandy buff, streaked with blackish centres to the 

 feathers ; under surface of body sandy buff, with black streaks on 

 the breast, and the centre of the breast and abdomen black. Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-G. 



Hah. South Africa from the Orange River to Damara-Land, and 

 from British Caffraria to the Transvaal. 



a. S fid. sk. Orange River. Sir A. Smith [0.]. 



(Type of species.; 



b. $ ad. sk. Rustenberg, Dec. 10 ( W. Lucas). Sharpe Coll. 



2. Pyrrhulauda grisea. 



Alouette grise de Gingi, Sonn. Vorj. Ind. Orient, ii. p. 203, pi. 113. 

 fig. 2 (1782). 



Gingi Lark, Lath. Gen. Sijn. ii. pt. 2, p. 380 (1783). 



Alauda grisea, Scop. Del. Faun, et F/or. Insi/br. ii. p. 95 (178G). 



Alauda gingica, Gtn. S)/sf. Nat. i. p. 795 (1788). 



Friugilla cruciger, Te7nm. PI. Col. iii, pi. 2G9. fig. 1 (1824); S'l/kes, 

 P. Z. S. 1832, p. 94. 



Megalotis cruciger, Sivains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 347 (1828). 



Pyrrhalauda cruciger, Jerd. Madr. Juurn. xi. p. 35 (1840) ; Hodgs. 

 Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus. pi. 298. figs. 1, 2, no. 809 ; id. in Gray's 

 Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844). 



Ryrrhulnuda grisea, Bh/tli, J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. 958 (1844) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 381 (1844) ; id. Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal pres. llodqs. 

 p. 109 (184G); Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Soc. p. 134 (1849) ; Bj). 

 Co?isj). Av. i. p. 512 (1850) ; ITorsf. S,- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. 

 ii. p. 479 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 424 (18G3) ; Blyth, Ibis, 18G7, 

 pp. 45, 184; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, pp. 180, 355; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 123, no. 7834 (1870) ; HokMo. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 465 ; Hai/es 

 Llot/d, Ibis, 1873, p. 414 ; Hume, Nests ^^- Fyys Lid. B. p. 479 

 (1873); id. Str. F. i. p. 212 (1873); Adam, t. c. p. 388; Legye, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 399 ; Bcdl, Str. F. ii. p. 422 (1874) ; Butler, Str. F. 

 iii. p. 499 (1875) ; Fairbank, Str. F. iv. p. 2G1 (1876) ; Hume, t. c. 

 p. 459 ; Ball, Str. F. v. p. 223 (1877) ; 07>7;s, t. c. p. 295 ; Lavid- 

 S071 ^- Wenden, Str. F. vii. p. 85 (1878) ; Legye, Birds of Ceylon, 

 ii. p. G37 (1879) ; Butler, Ccd. B. Sind 4't. p. 49 (1879); Hume, 

 Str. F. viii. p. l08 (1879) ; Scully, t. c. p. 337 ; ridal, Str. F. ix. 

 p. 73 (1880) ; Doiy, t. c. p. 281 ; Butler, Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. 

 p. 63 (1880) ; Reid, Str. F. x. p. 58 (1881) ; Davidson, t. c. p. 314 

 (1882) ; Damson, t. c. p. 40 (1883) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, 

 p. 193 (1884) ; Swinhoe Sj- Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 130; Beid, Cat. 

 Lucknow Mus. p. 138 (1886); Macgr. Str. F. x. p. 440 (1887). 



Coraphites griseus. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 124, note (1850). 



Advlt mcde. General colour above ashy grey, some of the feathers 

 pearly grey on their margins, the upper surface slightly mottled, 



