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ALAUDID.?;. 



Certhilauda albofasciata, Lafr. 

 (Plate VI. figs. 10 & 12.) 



Certhilauda rufula, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 496 (1875-84) ; 



Emitter, Fcilden S( Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 297 ; Sh'arpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xiii. p. 515 (1890) ; Nfihrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 132 (1899) ; Sfark, 



Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 234 (]900). 

 Cevthilauda albofasciata, Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 22 (1902) ; Sharpe, 



Iland-l. V. p. 154 (1906). 



Eggs of the Piufous Long-billed Lark are of a pointed or blunt 

 oval shape and moderately glossj-. They are usuallj- dull white or 

 greenish-white, more or less densely speckled all over with 

 yellowish-brown and purplish-grey. One egg is dull white, 

 blotched with lavender and brownish-yellow. Two eggs taken at 

 Maribogo are creamy-white, densely spotted with yellowish-brown, 

 the spots forming a wide yellowish-brown zone round the larger 

 end. They measure from "74 to "84 in length, and from "55 to "6 

 in breadth. 



Newcastle, Natal. 



Newcastle, 16th Oct. 



Ingagagiie Uiver, near Newcastle, 



27th Sept. (E. A. Butler). 

 Maribogo, 50 miles N. of Vrybiirg, 



O.R.C, 3rd April. 

 Bloenifontein, O.R.C., 3rd Sept. 

 liloemfontein, O.R.O., 27th Sept. 

 Kroonstad, O.K.C., 18th Nov. 

 Itietfontein, O.R.C., 11th Aug. 

 Potchefstroom, Trausvaal (7". Ayres 



Tristram Cull.). 



Gapt. Savile G. Pteid [C.]. 

 Major Pi. Sparrow [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 

 R. B. Woosnam. Esq. [C.]. 

 ]\raior R. Sparrow [P.]. 

 Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 

 Cjowley Bequest. 



Genus ALJEMON, Ke)/s. cf- Blasii's. 



Alsemon alaudipes {Desf.). 



(Plate YI. figs. 9 & 11.1 



Alauda desertorum, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. J^Of/. tab. xxvi. fig. 12, a, h 



(1845-54). 

 Certhilauda desertorum, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427 ; Loche, Expl. Set. 



Alger., Ois. ii. p. 43 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Fur. iv. p. 275 (1874). 

 Alauda bifasciata, Bree, Birdji Fur. 2nA ed. iii. p. 105, pi. (1875). 

 Certhilauda alaudipes, Dresser, torn. cit. p. 273 (1881) ; Shelter/, Birds 



Afr. iii. p. 19 (1902); Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 375 



(1902). 

 Alsemon alaudipes, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 518 (1890) ; Nehrk. 



Kat.Eiersamml.V- 132 (1899); Whitaker, Birds Tunis, i. p. 241 1 



(1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 



Four eggs of the Western Desert-Lark, or Bifasciated Lark, are 

 of an ordinary oval form and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 greyish-white, spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end 

 than elsewhere, with pale olive-brown and pale purplish-grey. 



