MACRONYX CAPENSIS. 3 



edges to the feathers narrower ; eyebrows and throat brownish buff, very 

 shghtly mottled with orange ; black throat-band absent ; crop spotted with 

 a few blackish shaft-marks ; bend of wing whitish orange. Wing 3-8. 

 Grahamstown (Layard). 



The Cape Long-claw ranges from Cape Colony into 

 Zululand and Mashona. 



I met with the species near both Cape Town and Durban, 

 singly or in pairs. They appear never to assemble in flocks, 

 but to be very generally distributed over suitable country, 

 such as the open veldt which is here and there interspersed 

 with bushes and ant-hills, on the tops of which they imme- 

 diately perch when disturbed. No doubt on account of 

 this habit Levaillant called the species " L'Alouette Senti- 

 nelle," a more euphonious name than " Cut-throat Lark " or 

 " Kalksentje ; " by which they are generally known to the 

 colonists. 



Like the other members of the genus Macronyx, it is 

 partial to certain localities, for Layard writes : " Mr. "W. 

 Atmore declares that it is never found on Karroo soil, and 

 we do not remember noticing it near Beaufort ; certainly it 

 is not recorded in Victorin's collections from the Karroo, 

 though he appears to have met with it plentifully in the 

 Knysna district." 



The species is common in Southern Cape Colony, Natal, 

 Zululand and the Transvaal ; but according to Dr. Bradshaw 

 it is not found along the northern border of Cape Colony, 

 and it has never been recorded from so far north as the 

 Zambesi River. 



Mr. T. E. Buckley writes : " Very common through 

 Natal and the High Veldt part of the Transvaal. They 

 are found singly or in pairs, and fly with several very rapid 

 beats of the wing together, uttering their call-note all the 

 time, which is exactly what Layard calls mewing." Mr. T. 



