36 MIRAFRA SABOTA. 



Adult. Above cinnamon brown, paler on the hind neck, and ashy grey 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and mottled with brownish black shaft 

 stripes, which are narrow on the crown. Wings dusky brown, with no 

 rufous pattern ; broad pale edges to the coverts, and inner secondaries 

 whitish, generally with a submarginal wash of rufous ; under surface dusky 

 ash, the inner edges of the quills narrowly washed with white, and the 

 under wing-coverts mottled with that colour and a little rufous buff. Tail 

 dark brown with narrow brownish buff edges to the feathers, and no white 

 pattern. A broad eyebrow, space in front and under the eye, and the cheeks 

 white; ear-coverts rufous brown, with very narrow whitish streaks; three 

 lines of black, one from nostril to eye, a second from gape to beneath the 

 ear-coverts, and the third on the side of the upper throat ; sides of upper 

 neck and the under parts generally pure white, with rufous brown shaft- 

 stripes on the middle and lower throat and crop. Iris light hazel ; bill 

 brown, with the upper mandible much darker than the lower one, tarsi and 

 feet pale brown. Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-5, tail 2-8, 

 tarsus 0-9. <? , 29. 11. 97 Arabsiyo (Hawker). 



Gillett's Sabota Lark inhabits Somaliland and southern 

 Abyssinia. 



The type was procured at Sibbe, in western Somaliland, 

 during Dr. Donaldson's Smith's journey through that country 

 in 1894, and was named after Mr. F. Gillett, who accompanied 

 the expedition. Specimens have also been collected by him 

 at Magog in February, 1899, by Mr. Elliot at Huillier, by Mr. 

 Lort Phillips at Goonban, and by Mr. Hawker at Arabsiyo. 

 In the Wollo Gala comitry of southern Abyssinia Lord Lovat 

 shot a specimen at Hawash Bridge in about 8° N. lat. 4° E. 

 long. 



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Mirafra sabota. 



Mirafra sabota. Smith, Eep. Exped. C. Afr. App. p. 47 (1846) N. oj 

 Latakoo ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 618 (1890) Latakoo, Orange 

 Biver Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Matabcle ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 

 215 (1896) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 514 Ziduland ; Stark, Faun. 

 S. Afr. B. i. p. 208 (1900). 



Type. Above, pale rufous shaded brown with broad blackish brown 

 shaft-bands. Wing brown, with brownish buff edges to the feathers, broad 

 on the coverts and inner secondaries, and very narrow on the other quills 



