AMMOMANES. 145 



Hi'j^^s of the Thiek-billod Lark are of a regular oval shape and 

 devoid of gloss. Some are cream-coloured, densely mottled with 

 brown and lavender- or purplish-i^rey, especially at the broad end. 

 Others are greenish-white blotched with olive-brown and lilac-grey. 

 They measure from -So to -93 in length, and from -Gl to '(JO in 

 breadth. 



1. South Africa. Gould Coll. 



1. South Africa {E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



2. South Africa {E. L. L. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 

 2. South Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



;'. Bloemfontein,0. R. C. ,22nd April. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



Genus AMMOMANES, Cah. 



Ammomanes phoenicura (FranJd.). 



(Plate VIII. figs. 19 & 20.) 



Ammomanes phoenicura, S/tarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. (342 (1890) ; 

 Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. :'-i9 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, 

 Nests i^ Effffs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 240 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. ]3o (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 183 (1908). 



The eggs of the Rufous-tailed Desert-Lark are mostly of a broad 

 pointed oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a creamy- or 

 pale yollowish-white, speckled and freckled all over, but most 

 densely at the broad end, with yellowish- or pale reddish-brown 

 and underlying purplish-grey. They measure from "78 to "9 in 

 length, and from '55 to 'OS in breadth. 



3. Uoshungabad, C. Provs., India, Hume Coll & 



28th April {E. C. Nunn). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Raipur, C. Provs., April {F. B. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt). 



2. Raipur, 15th April (F. B. B.). Hume Coll. 

 14. Raipur {F. B. B.). Hume Coll. 



Ammomanes grayi, Waldb. 



Ammomanes grayi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 643 (1890) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 135 (1899) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 198 

 (1900) ; Shellei/, Birds Afr. in. p. 103 (1902) ; Sharpe, ILmd I. v. 

 p. 185 (1908j. 



Two eggs of Gray's Desert-Lark closely resemble certain types 

 of those laid by A. phoenicura, having the ground-colour white, 

 densely and finely freckled over the entire surface of the shell with 

 yellowish-brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : "SB by 

 •6 ; -86 by -6. 



2. Ondonga, Ovampoland, 25th April Crowley Bequest. 

 (C.J.Andersson: Tristram Coll.). 

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