AMMOMANBS. 147 
Ammomanes phenicuroides (Blyth). 
Ammomanes phoenicuroides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 647 
(1890); Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 340 (1890); id., ed. 
Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 242 (1890); Sharpe, Hand-l. 
v. p. 184 (1908). 
Ammomanes deserti phoenicuroides, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun, pt. ii. 
p. 224 (1904). 
The eggs of Blyth’s Desert-Lark are of a regular oval shape 
and moderately glossy. They are pale greyish-white, speckled and 
spotted with pale brown and underlying purplish-grey. The 
markings are more dense at the broad end, where they form a small 
cap. Two examples measure respectively: °77 by 6; °82 by °6. 
2. Nowshera, Peshawur Valley, Tlume Coll. 
Punjab, 4th May (C. &. Cock). 
Ammomanes arenicolor (Sundev.). 
Ammnomanes elegans, Loche, Expl. Sct. Alyér., Ois. ii. p. 26 (1867). 
Ammomanes cinctura, Dresser, Birds Ew. iv. p. 335 (1875); Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds B, M. xii. p. 644 (13890); Nehrk. Kat. Liersamml. p. 135 
(1899). 
Ammomanes pheenicura arenicolor, Hartert, Vig. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 224 
(1904). 
Ammomanes cinctura arenicolor, Whitaker, Birds Tunis. i. p. 277 
(1905). 
Ammomanes arenicolor, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 183 (1908). 
Eggs of Gould’s Desert-Lark are of a regular oval shape and 
entirely devoid of gloss. They are white, rather thickly marked, 
especially at the broad end, with specks and very small spots of 
deep purplish-brown and lavender. They measure from ‘8 to °82 
in iength, and from *59 to °6 in breadth. 
5. Sillousa, Tunis, 10th April. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq, 
Peek 
4, Algeria, 7th April (P. Spatz). W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Pa. 
1. Algeria (Loche). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. El Aghouat, C. Algeria (Loche : Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll.). 
Ammomanes erythrochlamys (Smith). 
Ammomanes erythrochlamys, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p, 648 (1890) ; 
Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 199 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. 
p- 95 (1902); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 185 (1908). 
Two eggs of the Damaraland Desert-Lark are very similar to 
those of A. isabellina, having the ground-colour white profusely 
spotted and freckled all over with dark purplish-brown, reddish- 
brown, and lavender. ‘I'hey measure ‘82 by *58. 
2. Otjimbinque, Damaraland, 13th Jan. Crowley Bequest. 
(C. J. Andersson: Tristram 
Coll.). 
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