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claw is remarkably short, though not more so than in some of the 
Indian species of Mirafra. The single specimen that occurred of 
this bird is now in the British Museum. 
66. ALAUDA ERYTHROPYGIA, Strickland, n.s. Upper parts deep 
fuscous brown, the feathers narrowly margined with rufo-fulvous ; 
upper tail-covers ferruginous ; remiges deep fuscous, almost black on 
both webs, secondaries narrowly tipped with pale fulvous ; tail fuscous 
black, the middle rectrices narrowly margined with ferruginous, the 
bases of all ferruginous, extending obliquely nearly to the tips of the 
outer pair. Lower parts pale fulvous, the chin, throat and breast 
with a broad medial fuscous streak on each feather ; lower wing-covers 
black, margins of wing fulvous ; beak fuscous ; legs flesh-colour ; hind 
claw short and slightly curved. - (Aves, Pl. XXIV.) 
Length 71 inches; beak to front, 5%, to gape, 77; wing, 4+; me- 
dial and-external rectrices, 3; tarsus, |; hind claw, ;3;. 
Hab. Kordofan. 
67. W. Colius macrurus, Linn. (C. senegalensis, Gm.) 
68. W. Tockus erythrorhynchus (Kuhl). 
69. W. Paleornis torquatus, Vig. ~(P. eubicularis, Wagl.) This 
species, which extends across Africa from Abyssinia to Senegal, is 
identical with specimens from India. 4 
70. W. Pogonius vieilloti, Leach. (P. senegalensis, Licht.; P. 
rubescens, Temm.) N.B. This generic name was originally written 
Pogonia by Leach (Zool. Mise. vol. ii. p. 45), in which form it had 
been preoccupied by a genus of plants.  [liger’s name, Pogonias, had 
also been preoccupied by a fish-genus; but Leach afterwards cor- 
rected it to Pogonius, which form had never been used before, and I 
therefore retain it instead of Mr. G. R. Gray’s name Lemodon (erro- 
neously written Laimodon). 
71. Trachyphonus margaritatus, Riipp. (Tamatia erythropyga, 
Ehrenb.) z 
72. Yunzx torquilla, Linn. Identical with specimens from Britain 
and from India. 
73. N. Oxylophus serratus (Sparrm.). This Cape bird has never 
before, I believe, been obtained to the north of the equator. The 
nearly allied O. jacobinus (Bodd.) of India (Cueculus melanoleucus, 
Gm.; ©. passerinus, Vahl) has the lower parts constantly white. 
Ehrenberg, in his ‘Symbole Physicee,’ fol. 7, describes a Nubian spe- 
cies under the name of Cuculus pica, which from the description 
seems to be identical with the white-bellied O. jacobinus of India. 
Riippell erroneously refers this C. pica of Ehrenberg to the Ovylo- 
phus afer, Leach (Levaill. Ois. Afr. pl. 209), of S. Africa, which differs 
in having dark streaks on the throat, and which appears from Riip- 
pell’s observations to be also an Abyssinian bird. 
74. W. Owylophus glandarius (Linn.). 
75. W. Columba guinea, Lim. (C. trigonigera, Wagl.) 
76. Numida ptilorhyncha, Licht. 
77. Francolinus clappertoni, Vig. Mr. G. R. Gray has separated 
the F. clappertoni of Riippell as a distinct species, under the name of 
