MIRAFRA RUFOCINNAMOMEA. 45 



alighting. It was generally seen in large, bare woods, and 

 we never came across it except in the edge of the Guerague 

 country." 



Mirafra rufocinnamomea. 



Megalophonus rufocinnamomea, Salvacl. Atti. Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 1865, 



p. 378 Abyssinia. 

 Mirafra rufocinnamomea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 600 (1890) Ugogo ; 



Eeichen. Vog. D. 0. Afr. p. 203 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 199 



(1896); Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 46 Campi-ya-Simba ; Neum. 



J. f. O. 1900, p. 291 Usegiia. 

 Geocoraphus elegantissimus, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 228 Abyssinia ; id. 



Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 690; App. cli. (1871). 

 Mirafra torrida, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 308, pi. 17 Ugogo. 



Type of M. torrida. Above rich cinnamon with no distinct bars ; crown 

 and mantle with blackish shaft-stripes and obsolete rufous brown ones on 

 the lower back and upper tail-eoverts ; longest tail-coverts uniform cinna- 

 mon. Tail uniform dark brown with a large pale rufous pattern extending 

 over the outer feather with the exception of a broad inner mark, and the 

 whole of the outer web of the next feather. Wing with the upper coverts 

 and inner secondaries cinnamon, with buff edges and a few partial blacki!>h 

 bars on the median and greater coverts as well as on the inner secondaries ; 

 the latter have partial submarginal black streaks ; remainder of the quills 

 with broad cinnamon mai-gins to both webs ; under wing-coverts rufous buff. 

 Eyebrow and sides of head rufous buff, the latter mottled with deeper 

 rufous ; under parts rufous buff, mottled on the lower throat and crop with 

 cinnamon and a few partially black shaft-stripes. " Iris brown ; bill dusky 

 grey, paler below ; tarsi and feet pale brown " (Ansorge). Total length 

 57 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 29, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-95. Ugogo (Kirk). 



Salvadori's Cinnamon Lark ranges from Ugogo into 

 Abyssinia. 



This species is represented in the British Museum by a 

 single specimen; the type of M. torrida, which was procured 

 for me by Sir John Kirk in Ugogo, in which country, accord- 

 ing to Hartlaub, Emin has collected several specimens. Mr. 

 Oscar Neumann records two males from Majuju in Northern 

 Usegua, and Mr. Hartert one in Dr. W. J. Ansorge's col- 

 lection from Campi-ya-Simba in British Bast Africa. 



