60 MIRAFRA ATHl. 



most is all chestnut with a blackish brown tip ; under wing-coverts deep 

 buff ; primary-coverts rufous. Central rectrices blackish brown, mottled 

 ■with black in the middle, grading into rufous towards the outer edges of the 

 webs, which are margined with white, and an irregular black line runs along 

 the web near its margin. Eemainder of rectrices blackish brown, margined 

 with white, but the outermost rectrix has the entire outer web pale buff. 

 Superciliary stripes pale buff ; ear-coverts and cheeks white spotted, and 

 streaked with black. Throat and sides of neck white. Breast buff, streaked 

 and spotted with brownish black, lower parts, flanks and under tail-coverts 

 pale buff, inclining to white. Bill long, slender, horn colour. Tarsi and 

 feet flesh colour; irides brown. Total length, skin 6-10 inches, wing i, 

 tail 3-50, culmen -70, tarsus 1-20." 



Sbarpe's Large Red- winged Lark inhabits Somaliland. 



This species resembles M. hijpermetra in the length of the 

 tail being 3"5 inches, but differs in the more rufous colouring 

 of the jjlumage and in the entire outer webs of the lateral 

 tail-feather being white, as in M. africana; but this last- 

 mentioned species, as well as M. athi, have the tail only 

 2 '5 inches in length. 



This species being known only by the type which was 

 shot on the north side of the Sila Plain by Mr. Elliot, I have 

 quoted his description. 



Mirafra athi. (PI. 17, fig. 1.) 



Mirafra africana athi, Hartert, Nov. Zool, 1900, p. 46 Athi plain, 



Nairohej id. Bull. B. 0. C. xi. p. 63 (1901) Mau. 

 Mirafra africana (nee Smith), Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 260 Ukamhani ; 



Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 624 pt. Nakuru, Naiioasha ; Hinde, Ibis, 



1900, p. 494, MachaWs. 



Adult. Similar in general colouring to M. hypermetra, but smaller and 

 differs mostly in the tail, the centre feathers of which are obscurely but 

 slightly more barred and with the pale margins broader and more distinctly 

 edged internally by a black streak, and the pale buff pattern of the outer 

 feather extends very nearly over the whole of the outer web ; wings with 

 the coverts more rufous buff and are very regularly marked with dark 

 central spots ; spots on the throat slightly smaller. " Iris orange ; bill 



