ALAUDIDZ. 111. 
Macronyx croceus (Vicill.). 
(Plate VI. figs. 5 & 8.) 
Macronyx croceus, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 208; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 
x. p. 626 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Kiersammi. p. 93 (1899); Stark, 
Faun. 8. Afr., Birds, 1. p. 259 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 4 
(1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 153 (1906). 
Macronyx striolatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S,. Africa, p. 532 
(1875-84) 
The eggs of the Yellow-bellied Long-clawed Pipit are of a blunt 
oval shape and moderately glossy. The eggs of one clutch are 
white, thickly marked all over with spots and small blotches of 
reddish-brown and pale purplish-grey. Other eggs are similarly 
marked, but with pale brown and lavender. Two other examples 
are greyish-white, rather sparingly freckled and blotched with pale 
rufous and lavender. They measure from -93 to 1:02 in length, 
and from ‘68 to -75 in breadth. 
3. Natal. Old Collection. 
2. Natal (7. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
4, Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 
Family ALAUDID. 
Genus CERTHILAUDA, Swans. 
Certhilauda capensis (Bodd.). 
(Plate VI. figs. 6 & 7.) 
Alauda capensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vég. p. 387, tab. xxvi. fig. 11 
(1845-54). 
Alauda africana, Thien. tom. cit. p. 879, tab. xxvi. fig. 13. 
Sands capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds 8. Afr. p. 494 (1875- 
84); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 514 (1890) ; Stark, Faun. 
8. Afr, Birds, i. p. 255 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 28 (1902) ; 
Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 
Eggs of the Cape Long-billed Lark are of a blunt oval form and 
very slightly glossy. They are variablein colour. Four specimens, 
taken by Layard, are cream-colour or whitish, densely mottled and 
spotted with brown and underlying lavender. Four examples from 
the Gould Collection are also cream-colour, but marbled all over with 
very faint brown and pale grey. Hight eggs vary from °83 to -96 
in length, and from ‘64 to -68 in breadth. 
4. South Africa. Gould Coll. 
2. South Africa. K. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 
2. South Africa (2. LZ. Layard). Crowley “Bequest. 
