518 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
its red wings, the cinnamon colour occupying the basal two-thirds 
of both webs, and not being confined to the basal portion of the 
outer web, as in M. apiata. In size the two species appear to be 
very similar. 
The present bird represents M. apiata on the northern borders of 
the colony, ranging into the Transvaal. We have received it from 
Bloemfontein, whence Dr. Exton sent us a specimen. Mr. T. Ayres 
has procured the species in the Transvaal, and observes :-—“ This 
Lark has precisely the habits of M. apiata, mentioned in Mr. Layard’s 
catalogue, p. 206. One of the birds sent (a male) had evidently, 
from the appearance of the skin on the breast and belly, taken his 
share in incubation ; it was shot about the end of March.” Professor 
Barboza du Bocage states that this species was obtained in the 
neighbourhood of the Zambesi by Major Serpa Pinto. 
Adult male.—Above entirely cinnamon rufous, the feathers of the 
crown faintly tipped with whitish, these tips being much broader and 
more distinct on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, these light 
tips relieved by a subterminal line of black, most of the feathers 
being blackish at base and having one or two other concealed bars 
of blackish ; hind neck and interscapulary region brighter cmnamon, 
with central streaks of deeper cinnamon ; wing-coverts cinnamon 
like the back, but the margins to the feathers broader and the black 
subterminal margins more pronounced ; quills rufous for two-thirds 
of their length, brown for the terminal third, the secondaries 
browner, the inner web almost entirely brown, the outer one mottled 
with the same externally, the innermost deep cinnamon, like the 
back, with the same distinct margins; tail brown, slightly tipped 
with rufous, the two outer feathers externally margined with creamy 
buff, the outermost more broadly, the two centre tail-feathers cinna- 
mon, dark brown in the centre, from which radiate several imperfectly 
formed bars and mottlings of blackish; lores and a fairly distinct 
eyebrow buffy white; ear-coverts rufous, deeper on the hinder 
margin ; cheeks and sides of neck buffy white, minutely speckled 
with dark brown; throat, buffy white, unspotted; rest of under 
surface pale fawn colour, rather obscured in some places by fulvous 
margins to the feathers, the fore neck and chest numerously marked 
with little round spots of black ; under wing-coverts deep cinnamon 
like the inner lining of the wing; “ bill pale, with the tip dusky ; 
tarsi and feet pale dusky ; iris light tawny ” (Ayres). 
