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In one specimen the blotches of yellowish-brown are very large. 
They measure respectively 1:04 by °72 and 1-1 by °75. 
1. Algeria (Loche). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
1, El Aghouat, Algeria, April (Zoche: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
2. South of El Aghouat, April (Dr. Salvin-Godman Coll. & 
Rebond: Tristram Coill.). Crowley Bequest, 
Alemon pallida (Blyth). 
(Plate VI. fig. 13.) 
Alzmon desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 519 (1890) 
[part.]; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 318 (1890); ¢d., 
ed, Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 219 (1890). 
Alzemon pallida, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 155 (1906). 
Two eggs of the Eastern Desert-Lark are of the same shape as 
those of A. alaudipes, but have an appreciable amount of gloss. 
One specimen is very pale greenish-white, spotted and blotched 
with pale olive-brown and dark purplish-grey. The other is also 
greenish-white, but is thickly mottled with olive-brown, not 
blotched as in the first specimen, and the underlying purplish-grey 
markings are few and inconspicuous. ‘They measure respectively : 
1:02 by -74; °98 by -71. 
2. Jask. Persian Gulf, 15th April Hume Coll. 
(£yfinch). 
Alemon damarensis, Sharpe. 
(Plate VI. fig. 14.) 
Alemon damarensis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 361; ¢d., Hand-l. v. p. 155 
(1906). 
Two eggs of the Damaraland Desert-Lark are of a rather broad 
and slightly-pointed oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. They 
are dull white, with fine spots and small blotches of yellowish- 
brown and lavender-grey scattered all over the shell, but most 
numerous towards the larger end. They measure respectively 
‘97 by °7 and ‘92 by °71. 
2. Otjimbinque, Damaraland (C. J. Crowley Bequest. 
Andersson: Tristram Coll.). 
Genus CHERSOPHILUS, Sharpe. 
Chersophilus duponti ( Vvezil.). 
(Plate VI. fig. 15.) 
Certhilauda duponti, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427; Loche, Expl. Sci. 
Algér., Otis. ii. p. 42 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 279 (1878) ; 
td., Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 376 (1902). 
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