504 + BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Adult Male.—Above rufous fawn colour, the margins of the dorsal 
plumes paler and more fulvescent, with broad centres of blackish 
brown ; the head slightly crested and coloured like the back, the 
hind neck more greyish and somewhat separating the head from the: 
back by an indistinct collar; wing-coverts coloured like the back, 
dark brown, with broad fulvescent margins, causing a somewhat 
mealy appearance ; quills brown margined with fulvous fawn-colour 
very broad on the secondaries, and paler in the outer edges; lower 
back, ramp and upper tail-coverts bright rufous fawn colour with 
narrow blackish shaft-lines, broader on the last named ; tail-feathers 
brown, bordered with fulvous, a little broader on the outermost 
feather and more rufous on the centre ones, which are shaded with 
ashy ; lores and a distinct eyebrow fulvous white, tinged with fawn ; 
ear-coverts rufous fawn, inclining to dark brown on their upper 
margin; cheeks fulvous white, with a few spots of dark brown ; 
under surface of body isabelline buff, the throat unspotted; the 
flanks and chest washed with fawn-colour, the latter marked with 
a good many triangular spots of dark brown; under wing-coverts 
light fawn colour, the outermost spotted with brown, the greater 
series ashy brown like the inner lining of the wing, which is almost 
entirely of the latter colour, with a tinge of isabelline on the inner 
web ; bill horn brown, inclining to yellowish horn colour at base. 
Total length, 6°38 inches; culmen, 0°8; wing, 4°0; tail, 3:1; 
tarsus, 1*1. 
Fig. Sharpe, P. Z. 8., 1874, pl. Ixxvi, fig. 2. 
504, AmMomanes rerruarena (Lafr.) Ferruginous Lark. 
Alauda ferruginea, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 208. 
The chief difference between the genus Ammomanes and the 
preceding genus consists in the feathered nostrils. The other 
characters are the same, viz., the long first primary equal to the 
tarsus, the short and curved hind claw, and the shorter and stouter 
bill not equalling the tarsus in length. 
Sir Andrew Smith found this Lark on the arid plains to the 
southward of the Orange River, and appears to have procured several 
specimens. Only one, however, is in the British Museum, the type of 
the species, of which the following is a description :—The species is 
distinguished by having no white tips to the tail-feathers, by its rufous 
ear-coverts and the inner lining of the wing being lead-coloured, with- 
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