JOO Mr. E. Lort Pliillips on Birds 



20. Al.^mon alaudifes (Dcsf.) ; Sluirpo, Cat. B. Biit. 

 Mas. xiii. p. 518 (1890). 



Certhialauda desertorum (hoc Stunley) ; Hcniglin, Ibis, 

 1859, p. 343. 



No. 2. (?. BeibcraPluin, Jan. Id, 189/. -^ ^ ,. ' 



(. It gs white. 



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These strange Desert-birds were very plentiful on the 

 Berbera Plain in January, and, as they were invariably met 

 with in pairs, they may have l)eeu breeding. Tlicir colouring 

 so exactly matches that of the sand and stones among 

 which they live, that they might easily escape observation 

 altogether, were it not for a long-drawn melodious note 

 iVequently uttered, ^^'hen followed they run with the greatest 

 swiftness, instead of taking to flight. 



21. PsEUDALiEMON FllEMANTHl. (Plate IX. fig. 2.) 



Calendula fremantlii Lort Phillips, Bull. B. O. C. vi. p. xlvi ; 

 id. Ibis, 1897, p. 448. 



No. 147. Gedais, Feb. 10, 1897. Iris light hazel. 



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No. 153. „ Feb. 18, „ 



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Captain Shelley has pointed out to me that this Lark is 

 more nearly allied to the Descrt-Lorks of the Akemon grou[) 

 than to Calendula, in which genus I had placed it. The bill 

 is long and exceeds the middle toe and claw, but the first 

 primary is very small, and thus C. fremantlii becomes allied 

 to Chersuphilus and Rhamphucorys. It is with the latter 

 genus that its stout bill causes it to be compared, and it has 

 also the same kind of pattern on the fdcc. Rtunnphocorys 

 has a uniform back and short inner secondaries, whereas in 

 Pseudalamoti — as I propose, at Dr. Bowdler Sharpe's 

 suggestion, to call this bird- — the back is streaked with 

 blackish, as in Galerita. The genus Pseudalaimon may be 

 separated from Rhamphocory^ as follows : — 



