40 MIRAFRA PLEBEIA 



Mirafra plebeia. 



Alauda (Megalophonus) plebeja, Cab. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 237 ; Eeicheu. 



J. f. 0. 1877, p. 29 Loaiigo. 

 Mirafra plebeia, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 593, note (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 208 (1896). 

 Type. Very similar in pattern and measurements to M. ncBvia ; but 

 the upper parts are greyer with no sandy coloured edges to the feathers. 

 Total length 5-75 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-36, tail 2-08, tarsus 0-88. 



Cabanis's Sabota-Lark inhabits the Loango Coast. 



This species is apparently known only by the type 

 specimen, which formed part of the collection made by 

 Falkenstein on the Loango Coast, and is now in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



Dr. Reichenow has kindly informed me that it is nearly 

 allied to M. nsevia, and pointed out the characters I have used 

 in my description of this species. 



Mirafra psecilosterna. (PI. 16, fig. 1.) 



Alauda paeoilosterna, Eeichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 155 ; id. J. f. O. 



1879, p. 353 Kibaradja. 

 Mirafra paecilosterna, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 612 note (1890) ; 

 Eeichen. Vog. D. O. Afr. p. 203 (1894) Pare, Arusha, Masai; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. No. 210 (1896). 

 Megalophonus massaicus, Fisch. and Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1884, p. 55, Little 



Arusha. 

 Adult. Similar to M. gilleti, from which it differs in having the upper 

 parts rather less mottled ; a grey shade on the crown ; pale portion of 

 sides of head cinnamon instead of white ; under parts more rufous ; 

 feathers of the lower throat with large uniform cinnamon centres ; throat, 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts washed with cinnamon ; under wing- 

 coverts cinnamon ; inner edges of quills slightly tinted with that colour. 

 " Iris, feet and bill brown " (Ansorge). Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0'6, 

 wing 3-4, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-95. <? , E of Kilimanjaro (Abbott). 



The Masai Sabota-Lark inhabits East Africa from the 

 latitude of Zanzibar to the Equator. 



Fischer collected the type of the species, a male, at 



