28 CERTHILAUDA BREVIUNGUIS. 



Certhilauda breviunguis. 



Alauda breviunguis, Suudev. Afr. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 99 



Transvaal. 

 Heterocorys breviunguis, Sbarpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 524 (1890) Cape Col., 



Transvaal; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 182 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. 



B. i. p. 227 (1900). 



AdicU male. Above pale rufous brown with black shaft-bands, very 

 broad on the crown and mantle ; wings dark brown with buff edges to the 

 feathers, broadest on the wing-coverts and secondaries, and more shaded 

 with rufous than on the primary-coverts and primaries ; tail dark ashy 

 shaded brown with rufous buff edges to all the feathers ; ear-coverts brown, 

 eyebrows, cheeks and under parts sandy buff, slightly darker on the crop 

 and flanks ; crop strongly spotted with brownish black angular shaft-marks ; 

 under surface of the wing ashy brown with the coverts mostly sandy buff, 

 and a faint buffy shade extends along the inner margins of the quills. 

 Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-9, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-1. 

 $ , 16. 4. 44. East of Inhambane (Wahlberg). 



The Short-clawed Long-billed Lark inhabits Cape Colony 

 and the Transvaal. 



There has been no further information regarding this Lark 

 since 1884, when Dr. Bowdler Sharpe wrote : " This species 

 seems to be very rare, as we have never seen a specimen in 

 any recent collection. Sir Andrew Smith procured two 

 individuals, which are now in the British Museum ; but he 

 does not appear to have named the species. The late Professor 

 Wahlberg obtained it in the Transvaal." There are still only 

 three specimens in the British Museum. 



Certhilauda capensis. 



Alauda capensis, Bodd. Tabl. PL Eul. p. 45 (1783). 



Certhilauda capensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 514 (1890) Cape Col. ; 



Kuschel. J. f. 0. 1895, p. 344 egg ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 176 (1896) ; 



Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 233 (1900). 

 Alauda africana, Gm. S. N. i. p. 798 (1788) Cape. 



Adult. Above, rufous tinted brown, shghtly paler on the hind neck, with 

 broad blackish shaft-stripes and some whitish tips to the feathers ; wings 



