434 Rev. H. B. Tristram on African Birds. 



at the mouths of rivers, and the sands of the sea-shore, where it 

 consorts with various species of Tringfe, and obtains from the 

 surface the abundant harvest of food which is always left by a 

 receding tide. 



Of its nidification nothing is yet kuosvn ; but, us the same 

 may be said of Tringa canutus, Tringa suharcuata, and other 

 Limicola, we can only look wistfully towards that large tract of 

 continent in Northern and North-eastern Asia still unexplored, 

 and dream of the oological treasures which are surely there 

 enclosed. 



XXXIX. — Notes on some African Birds. 

 By the Rev. II. B. Tristram, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 



Among the many rarities in the last collection (alas ! that we 

 must say the last) sent home by the late Mr. Andcrsson from 

 Damaraland and Ovampoland is one novelty, a very pretty 

 little Lark, distinct from any which I can ascertain to have been 

 described from South Africa, and to which I propose to give 

 the name of 



MeGALOPHONUS ANDERSSONI, sp. n. 



M. capite Iscte castaneo-rufo ; dorso fusco, plumarum parte 

 media nigricante : scapularibus fusco-nigris, castaneo ter- 

 minatis : primariis nigricanti-brunneis, rufo extcrne liin- 

 batis : rectricibus fusco-nigris, duobus mediis castaneo- 

 fuscis, pogonio cinnamomeo : corporc subtus (gula, abdo- 

 mine) albo, in lateribus rufo-tincto, et collari pectorali 

 cinnamomeo : utrinquc macula brunneo-nigra jugulari : 

 linca postoculari et supcrciliis albis : rostro carneo : pcdi- 

 bus et tarsis pallide brunneis. 

 Long. tot. 5-2, rostri a rictu 0*5, alje 3"15, caudaj 2"2, tarsi 

 0*65, hall. c. ung. 0-5, poll. angl. 



The type specimen w^as shot by Mr. Audersson at Otjim- 

 binque, Damaraland, I3th March, 1865, and is marked by 

 him doubtfully as " Alauda spleniata, Strickl, ? " On referring 

 to Strickland's description of that species (Contrib. Ornith. 

 1852, p. 152), it is evident that they are very different, and 

 that Strickland's bird is identical with Megalophonus cinereus 



