CERTHILAUDA ALAUDIPES. 19 



Certhilauda alaudipes. 



Upupa alaudipes, Desf. Mem. Acad. 1787, p. 504. 



Certhilauda alaudipes, Hartert, Kat. Vog. Mus. Senck, p. 38 (1891) 



Kordofan ; Koenig, J. f. 0. 1896, p. 216, pi. 7, figs. 5a, 5b, eggs. 

 Alsemon alaudipes, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 518 (1890) Capa Verde Is. ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 178 (1896) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1898, pp. 112, 



116, 281 ; Socage, Jorn. Lisb. 1898, p. 146 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. 1899, p. 294 Cape Verde Is. ; L. Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 400 



Soviali; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers, p. 132 (1899) egg. 

 Alauda desertorum, Stanley, in Salt's Exped. Abyss. App. p. Ix. (1814). 

 Alffimon desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 519 (1890) Abyssinia, 



Sind, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 179 (1896) ; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 65 



Somali; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers, p. 132 (1899) egg ; Grant, Ibis, 1901, 



p. 287 Zeila ; p. 626 Somali. 

 Alauda bifasciata, Licht. Verz. Double p. 27 (1823) Nubia. 

 Certhilauda meridionalis, A. E. Brehm. J. f. 0. 1854, p. 77 note, Dongola. 

 Certhilauda salvini, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 57 Algeria. 

 Certhilauda doriae, Salvad. Att. E, Ac. Torin. iii. p. 292 (1867). 

 Certhilauda jessei, Pinsch, Trans. L. S. vii. p. 273 (1870) Annesley Bay. 



Adult male. Upper parts uniform sandy buff with a slight tinge of grey 

 on the head, neck and upper tail-coverts ; crown and upper back with nearly 

 obsolete brown shaft stripes ; lesser wing-coverts sandy buff; inner greater 

 coverts and inner secondaries sandy buff with ashy brown centres ; 

 remainder of the wing dark brown with the following portions white — edges 

 of the median coverts, broad ends to the greater coverts, broad outer 

 margins to the secondaries, a broad band across the base and another at the 

 ends of the secondaries, the former extending across the primaries with the 

 exception of the outer webs of the first four quills, and the latter extends on 

 to the four inner primaries only ; tail square, with the extreme base white 

 and the remainder blackish brown, fading into grey on the centre feathers 

 which are broadly edged with sandy buff, the outer tail-feather on each side 

 has nearly the whole of the outer web white ; eyebrow and side of head 

 white with a patch on the lower cheek, and upper ear-coverts black ; under 

 parts white with a faint ashy shade on the crop, the latter boldly spotted 

 with brownish black centres to the feathers ; under surface of the wings 

 white with a large blackish brown portion of the quills narrowing into a bar 

 across the secondaries. "Iris dark brown, bill grey, legs white." Total 

 length in the flesh 9-1 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 5-0, tail 2-7, tarsus 1'4. g , 

 15. 1. 97. Berbera (Lort Phillips). 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being much smaller and of 

 a slightly more sandy colour, the grey shade being almost entirely absent. 

 Total length in the flesh 8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-2, tail 32, tarsus 1-2, 

 ? , 15. 1. 97. Berbera (Lort Phillips). 



