MIRAFRA SHARPEI. 49 



Reichenow's Large Red-winged Lark inhabits East Africa 

 between 5° S. lat. and 10° N. lat. 



Bmin has procured five specimens at Baguera in Novembei', 

 March and May, and Fischer found it distributed over Bast 

 Africa from the Pangani to the Tana river, and remarked its 

 habit of perching upon bushes to sing ; he collected specimens 

 in German Bast Africa, between the Pare mountains and the 

 Pangani river, and at Usaramo and Sigerari, to the west of 

 Kilimanjaro, and in British Bast Africa at Lake Naiwasha, and 

 discovered the type at Kibaraja on the Tana river. Dr. Ansorge 

 obtained a specimen at the Voi river, and Dr. Ragazzi one in 

 Shoa, at Sodde, which is the most northerly known range for 

 the species, while in about the same latitude Mr. A. B. Pease 

 collected specimens at Errer Gota and Katinwaha, and Lord 

 Lovat others at the Kassim river and Gadaburka. The latter 

 naturalists found the species abundant on the Hawash plain, 

 but it was shy, and he remarks : " During the day it soars 

 occasionally to a height of ten feet or so from the ground, 

 where it hovers for two or three minutes at a time." He 

 further remarks, " it sings in all weathers, and perches most 

 frequently on dead tree-stumps and old wood." 



/ Mirafra sharpei. 



Mirafra sharpei, Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Orn. i. No. 2, p. 37 (1895) 

 Somaliland. 



" Head rufous, the feathers generally having a black spot at the tip. 

 Nape and sides of neck dark rufous, feathers edged with pale buff. Back 

 dark rufous or chestnut, feathers margined with buff and with a black sub- 

 terminal V-shaped bar. Eump similar to back, upper tail-coverts brownish 

 black with grey margins, and a black spot near the tip. Wings have the 

 inner secondaries like the back, outer rones ufous for two-thirds their length, 

 remaining portion pale brown, and a black line running parallel to the shaft 

 near the margin of outer web, tips white. Primaries light chestnut for two- 

 thirds their length on outer quills, pale brown on remaining part. The 

 chestnut colour increases in extent on the inner primaries, until the inner- 



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