522 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
512. Mirarra pamarensis, Sharpe. Damara Lark. 
This Lark is smaller than M. africana, and does not show the 
rufous patch on the nape, this part being of the same colour as the 
head and back. It is distinguished from M. africanoides by the 
white edgings and tips to the tail-feathers. 
The only specimens which we have seen were from Ondonga in 
Ovampo Land, where they were collected by the late Mr. Andersson. 
Adult male in winter plumage.—Above sandy grey, slightly 
washed with fulvous and having a distinct shade of ashy grey on 
the margins of the feathers; the upper surface narrowly streaked 
with black shaft-lines, rather broader and more distinct on the 
crown; the hind neck inclining to ashy, the streaks much more 
minute ; wing-coverts like the back but rather paler by reason of 
distinct whitish grey margins to the feathers which have also central 
streaks or markings of bright fawn, many of the greater coverts 
washed with the latter colour before the whitish margin; quills 
dark brown, externally shaded with ashy buff, broader and clearer 
grey on the secondaries; the outer aspect of the wing rufous, this 
colour extending right across the primaries of which it occupies quite 
two-thirds and traverses also the basal part of the secondaries ; lower 
back and rump sandy grey, like the back, with scarcely any shaft- 
streaks, more distinct on the upper tail-coverts, which have distinct 
ashy white margins; tail blackish brown, all the centre feathers 
distinctly shaded with bluish grey and margined with whitish ash 
colour, shading off into white at the tips, the three external feathers 
bordered and tipped with white, this colour occupying the entire 
web of the outermost feather ; lores, a distinct eyebrow, and sides 
of the face white; the ear-coverts sandy, with indistinct white 
streaks; throat white, unspotted; rest of under surface creamy 
white with a tinge here and there of sandy isabelline, the chest with 
numerous minute specks of dark brown; thighs buff washed with 
sandy; under wing-coverts entirely rufous, like the inner lining 
of the quills, this colour occupying the base of both webs. ‘Total 
length, 5°5 inches ; culmen, 0°65 ; wing, 3°45 ; tail, 2-4; tarsus, 1-1. 
Another specimen is rather clearer and more bluish grey above, 
the central streaks darker and plainer, the spots on the chest a little 
larger and more distinct. Total length, 5°5 inches; culmen, 0°65 ; 
wing, 3°35 ; tail, 2°15; tarsus, 10. This is probably the female bird. 
Fig. Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1874, pl. lxxv, fig. 2. 
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