516 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
to be taken by the next species. It has been found, however, 
in Benguela by Senor Anchieta, who shot a specimen at Caconda ; 
and has also occurred in the Congo district. 
Adult.—Above cindery grey, with concealed bars of cinnamon 
rufous and black on most of the dorsal feathers, as well as all the 
wing-coverts; head uniform with back, much crested, the feathers 
blackish in the centre of the plumes, which are also minutely spotted 
with rufous; hind neck cindery grey, separating the head from the 
back ; quills dark brown, margined with rufous, the inner secondaries 
with grey like the back, the innermost washed with rufous and 
crossed with narrow transverse black lines ; tail dark brown washed 
‘with cindery grey, and tipped with white, the outermost feather 
broadly edged with fulvous extending over a great portion of the 
inner web obliquely towards the tip, the centre feathers slightly 
washed with rufous and minutely barred with blackish in an irregular 
manner, besides a few spots of the latter here and there; loral 
feathers minutely tipped with white, and behind the eye a small 
streak of buffy white ; ear-coverts light rufous, inclining to blackish 
on their hinder margin; rest of the sides of the face ight fulyous 
thickly speckled with blackish ; throat whitish with a few scattered 
spots of blackish brown ; rest of under surface ashy fulvous, the 
feathers being all broadly margined with this colour, and thus 
obscuring the pale fawn colour of their bases, the breast thickly 
spotted with large triangular marks of dark brown, and on the 
flanks a few narrow lines of dark brown; the under tail-coverts 
minutely spotted with dark brown; under wing-coverts fawn colour, 
except the outermost, which are washed with ashy brown, like the 
greater series and the entire inner lining of the wing. ‘Total length, 
5 inches; culmen, 0°55; wing, 3°0; tail, 2°2; tarsus, 1:0. 
The difference between the summer and winter dress in this Lark 
may be tabulated as follows :— 
The full-plumaged specimens before us of this Lark have not their 
dates of capture attached; but we believe that we have both winter 
and summer plumages represented, thus disposing of the idea that 
M. apiata can be the winter plumage of M.rufipilea. We therefore 
append short comparative characters of the two states, the specimen 
described being in what we consider full winter dress. 
