MIItAFUA. iy.5 



Mirafra woodwardi, Milli.jaa. 



(Plato VII. fig. 18.) 



Mirafra woodwardi, MilUf/an, Vict. Nat. xviii. p. 25 (1901) ■ Sham,. 

 Ilaml-l.v. -p. 17-2 (WOO). ^ ^ ^' ^ ' 



Four eggs of Woodward's Bush-Lark are of a wide, slio'htiy 

 I)ointed oval form and distinctly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 greenish- white or greyish-white, thickly spotted all over with dark 

 brown, olive-hi'own, and lilac-grey. They measure respectively • 

 •73 by -55 ; -74 by -."iS ; -75 by -57 ; 77 by -57. 



4. West Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [C.]. 



Mirafra cantillans, Bh/th. 



(Plate VII. figs. 20 & 21.) 



Mirafra cantillans, S/mrpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 60o (1890) ; Oafcs 

 Fauna Brit. Ltd., Birds, ii. p. 333 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume Nests i.' 

 Bf/t/s Ind. Birds, ii. p. 227 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. v 134 

 (1899; ; Sluuye, Hand-l. v. p. 173 (1906). 



The eggs of the Singing Bush-Lark vary from a ijointed to a 

 blunt oval form and are moderately glossy. They are greyish- 

 white or_ pale greenish-white, densely marked with two or more 

 shades of brown and underlying lavender or purplish-grey. Some 

 sjiecimens are very distinctly spotted; others ^are mottled and 

 blotched. Several specimens measure from -7 to -88 in length and 

 from -55 to -02 in breadth. " ' ' 



'^- Sind. Crowl(>v Eequest. 



2. Lahore, Punjab, 7th June ( C. 11. Hume Coll 



T. Marshall). 



2. Jhan.si, C. Provs., June (F. B. Hume Coll. 



Bleiritt). 



2. .Ihansi, 27th July {F. B. B.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Jhausi, Aug. (F. B. B.). Hume Coll. 



1. Hoshungabad, C. Provs., IGth Hume Coll. 



April (F. a Nutm). 



Mirafra damarensis, Shurpe. 



^lirafra damarensis, Sharim, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 612 (1890) • St-irk 

 J-rtw/* ,S'. 4/-,-., Birds, i. p. 211 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. -W 

 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 173 (1906). 



Eggs of the Damaraland Bush-Lark arc of a rounded or some- 

 what pointed oval form and very slightly glossed. The ground-colour 

 IS whitisli, more or less profusely mottled, spotted, or speckled with 

 reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, and lilac-grey. They measure from 

 ■74 to -8 in length, and from -58 to -61 in breadth. 



3. Ondonga, Ovami)oland {C. J. Crowley Bequest. 



Andersson : Tristram Coll.). 



2. Ondonga, I9th January (C. /. A. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



