112 ALAUDID®. 
Certhilauda albofasciata, Lafr. 
(Plate VI. figs. 10 & 12.) 
Certhilanda rufula, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 496 (1875-84) ; 
Butler, Feilden § Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 297 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 
xii. p. 515 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Liersamml. p. 182 (1899) ; Stark, 
Faun. 8. Afr., Bards, i. p. 234 (1900). 
Certhilauda albofasciata, Shelle y, Birds Afr. ii. p. 22 (1902); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 
Eggs of the Rufous Long-billed Lark are of a pointed or blunt 
oval shape and moderately glossy. They are usually dull white or 
greenish-white, more or less densely speckled all over with 
yellowish-brown and purplish-grey. One egg is dull white, 
blotched with lavender and brownish-yellow. ‘Two eggs taken at 
Maribogo are creamy-white, densely spotted with yellowish-brown, 
the spots forming a wide yellowish-brown zone round the larger 
end, They measure from ‘74 to ‘84 in length, and from °55 to ‘6 
in breadth. 
3. Newcastle, Natal. Capt. Savile G. Reid [C.]. 
2. Newcastle, 16th Oct. Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 
3. Ineagagne River, near Newcastle, Crowley Bequest. 
27th Se spt. (£. A. Butler). 
2. Maribogo, 50 miles N. of Vryburg, R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 
O.R.C., 5rd April. 
2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 3rd Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 27th Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. | C. ]. 
2. Kroonstad, O.R.C., 18th Nov. Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 
2. Rietfontein, O.R.C., Lith Aug. Major R. Sparrow [P. ]. 
i. “Pote -hefstroom, Transvaal (7. Ayres: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll). 
Genus ALAIMON, Keys. §- Blasius. 
Alemon alaudipes (Desf.). 
(Plate VI. figs. 9 & 11.) 
Alauda desertorum, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxvi. fig. 12, a, b 
(1845-54). 
Certhilauda desertorum, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427; Loche, Expl. Set. 
Algér., Ois. ii. p. 48 (1867); Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 275 (1874). 
Alauda bifasciata, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed! ili. p. 105, pl. (1875) 
Certhilauda alaudipes, Dresser, tom. cit. p. 275 (1881) ; Shelley, Birds 
Afr. iii. p. 19 (1902) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. 1. p. 875 
(1902). 
Alemon alaudipes, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 518 (1890) ; Nehrk. 
Kat. Eiersammil. p. 182 (1899); Whitaker, Birds Tunis, i. p. 241 
(1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 
Four eggs of the Western Desert-Lark, or Bifasciated Lark, are 
of an ordinary oval form and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 
ereyish-white, spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end 
than elsewhere, with pale olive-brown and pale purplish-grey. 
