496 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
with black ; ‘bill yellowish brown, shaded with umber-brown ; legs 
and toes clear buff-orange, tinted with flesh-red ; claws yellowish 
brown, shaded with umber-brown ; iris dark brown” (Sir A. Smith). 
Total length, 7-4 inches; culmen, 10°5; wing, 3:9; tail, 3:0; 
tarsus, 1°15. 
Female.—Coloured like the male (Sir A. Smith). 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. iv. pl. 492. 
499, CERTHILAUDA RUFULA (V.) Rufous Long-billed Lark. 
This species differs from the foregoing in having large white 
tips to the tail-feathers. It may be recognized by the generally 
rufous colour of the plumage, varied with narrow dark brown 
centres to the feathers, and by its rufous secondary quills which 
are margined with fulyous. 
We have received specimens from Colesberg from Mr. Ortlepp, 
and from Griqua Land from Mr. T.C. Atmore. Mr. Ayres notes 
it from the Transvaal under the name of O. garrula, with which for 
a long time the present species was confounded. He states that it 
is found in the open country, and it breeds there also, as in 1871 the 
same gentleman records the finding of a nest at Mamusa, at some 
distance from the river. ‘ It was placed under a tuft of grass, and 
was composed of rough grass outwardly, lined with roots of fine 
grass, and partially arched over with the rough grass of which the 
outer portion of the nest was constructed. It contained two eggs, 
one of which was larger than the other; and though I left the nest 
for two days after finding it, no other eggs were laid.” Canon 
Tristram, who had this pair of eggs from Mr. Ayres, believes that 
one of them is that of one of the South African Cuckoos. Mr. 
Andersson states that he found this species in Great Namaqua Land, 
but not in Damara Land: it frequents very open localities covered 
with grass and bush, where it runs about with great swiftness. 
Adult male—Above bright sandy rufous, with narrow and 
indistinct brown centres to the feathers, many of which are also 
margined with buffy white in a more or less conspicuous manner ; 
the head of the same rufous as the back, with slight fulvous margins 
and small dark brown centres to the feathers; lores and a very 
indistinct eyebrow buffy white; ear-coverts uniform bright sandy 
rufous; cheeks buffy white, with a few tiny spots of brown; quills 
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