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In ono spcciraon the blotches of yellowish-hrown are very large. 

 They measure respectively l-Oi by -72 and 1-1 by 'TS. 



1. Alp-eria {Loche). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. El Ag-liouat, Alrreria, April {Loche: Crowley Bequest. 



Tn'iifrrim Coll.). 



2. South of El Aa-houat, April {Br. Salvin-Godman Coll. & 



Rebond: Tristi'atn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Alsemon pallida {Blyth). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 13.) 



Alaemon desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 519 (1890) 

 [part.]; Gates, Fauna Brit. Itid.. Birds, ii. p. 318 (1890); id., 

 cd. Hume, Nests Sr Ez/ffS Lid. Birds, ii. p. 219 (1890). 



Alaemon pallida, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. loo (1906). 



Two eggs of the Eastern Desert-Lark are of the same shape an 

 those of A. alaudipes, but have an appreciable amount of gloss. 

 One specimen is very pale greenish-white, spotted and blotched 

 with pale olive-brown and dark purplish-grey. The other is also 

 greenish-white, but is thickly mottled with olive-brown, not 

 blotched as iu the first specimen, and the underlying purplish -grey 

 markings are few and inconspicuous. They measure respectively : 

 1-02 by -74; -98 by -71. 



2. Jask. Persian Gulf, 15th April Hume Coll. 



{Ffttich). 



AlaBmon damarensis, Sharpe. 

 (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Alsemon damarensis, Sharpe, Lbis, 1904, p. 361 ; id., LLand-l. v. p. loo 

 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Damaraland Desert-Lark are of a rather broad 

 and slightly-pointed oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. They 

 are dull white, with fine spots and small blotches of yellowish- 

 brown and lavender-grey scattered all over the shell, but most 

 numerous towards the larger end. They measure respectively 

 •97 by -7 and -92 by -71. 



2. Otjimbinque, Damaraland {C. J. Crowley Bequest. 

 Andersson : Trktram Coll.). 



Genus CHERSOPHILUS, Sharpe. 



Chersophilus duponti ( Vieill.). 



(Plate VL fig. 15.) 



Certhilauda duponti, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427 ; Loche, Rrpl. Sci. 

 Ahjer., Oi.<. ii. p. 42 (1867) ; L)r(:s.9er, Birds Eur. iv. p. 279 (187;i) ; 

 id., Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 376 (1902). 



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