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like a rat. One bird will sometimes frequent the same post 

 for many weeks." I have failed to find any record of the 

 occurrence of this species between Mashonaland and the 

 Victoria Nyanza. 



Mirafra cordofanica. 



Mirafra cordofanica, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 218, pi. 23; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 606 (1890) Kordofan ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 204 (1896). 



Galerita rutila, Von Miill. Descr. Nouv. Ois. Afr. pi. 13 (1851). 



Alauda praestigiatrix, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 43 (1856). 



Melanocorypha ferruginea, Brehm. J. f. 0. 1857, p. 82, Kordofan. 



Ammomaues cinnamomea, Bp. Notes Coll. Delattre, p. 61 (1854). 



Type. Above faintly mottled, very pale cinnamon with slightly darker 

 cinnamon centres to the feathers and with sandy white margins to some 

 of the feathers of the upper back. Wings with the coverts like the back ; 

 quills pale cinnamon, with the inner secondaries broadly margined with buff 

 and a narrow submarginal blackish line ; the primaries shade into more 

 dusky pale brown towards their ends ; inner lining of the wings pale 

 cinnamon with most of the outer two quills and the ends of the primaries 

 pale dusky brown. Tail with the four centre feathers uniform sandy brown, 

 the remainder of the feathers dark brown with sandy buff edges and the 

 white pattern extending over the outer feather with the exception of a 

 dusky wedge-shaped mark on the inner web, and a wedge, half an inch long, 

 at the end of the next feather white. Eyebrow and sides of head 

 whitish, with the ear-coverts partially cinnamon ; throat and under parts 

 generally, white, with a few spots of dusky cinnamon on the crop, the sides 

 of which as well as the flanks are faintly tinged with cinnamon. Total 

 length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-15, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-9. Kordofan 

 (Petherick). 



The Kordofan Lark inhabits the N.E. Soudan. 



The type, possibly a pale variety of the species to which 

 it belongs, was discovered by Petherick in Kordofan and is 

 now in the British Museum. This Lark has also been recorded 

 from Senaar, but apparently no traveller has noticed it in 

 life for the last forty years. 



