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Eggs of the Thick-billed Lark are of a regular oval shape and 
devoid of gloss. Some are cream-coloured, densely mottled with 
brown and lavender- or purplish-grey, especially at the broad end. 
Others are greenish-white blotched with olive-brown and lilac-grey. 
They measure from ‘85 to -93 in length, and from ‘61 to °69 in 
breadth. 
4. South Africa. Gould Coll. 
1. South Africa (2. LZ. Layard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. South Africa (LZ. ZL. L.: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
2. South Africa. Crowley Bequest. 
3. Bloemfontein,O. R.C.,22nd April. -R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 
Genus AMMOMANSES, Cab. 
Ammomanes phenicura (Franil.). 
(Plate VIII. figs. 19 & 20.) 
Ammomanes pheenicura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 642 (1890) ; 
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 339 (1890); zd., ed. Hume, 
Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 240 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Exersammil. 
p. 185 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 183 (1908). 
The eggs of the Rufous-tailed Desert-Lark are mostly of a broad 
pointed oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a creamy- or 
pale yellowish-white, speckled and freckled all over, but most 
densely at the broad end, with yellowish- or pale reddish-brown 
and underlying purplish-grey. They measure from -78 to ‘9 in 
length, and from °55 to *63 in breadth. 
3. Hoshungabad, C. Provs., India, Hume Coll & 
28th April (Z. C. Nunn). Crowley Bequest. 
1. Raipur, C. Provs., April (/. R. Hume Coll. 
Blewitt). 
2. Raipur, 15th April (F. RB. B.). Hume Coll. 
14. Raipur (/&. R. B.). Hume Coll. 
Ammomanes grayi, Wahlb. 
Ammomanes grayi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 643 (1890); Nehrk. 
Kat, Erersammi. p. 185 (1899) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 198 
(1900); Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 103 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand 1. Vv. 
p- 185 (1908). 
Two eggs of Gray’s Desert-Lark closely resemble certain types 
of those laid by A. phenicura, having the ground-colour white, 
densely and finely freckled over the entire surface of the shell with 
yellowish-brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : ‘83 by 
“Os, 66 by.°6. 
2. Ondonga, Ovampoland, 25th April Crowley Bequest. 
(C.J. Andersson: Tristram Coll.). 
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