58 MIRAFRA DAMARENSIS. 



Mirafra damarensis. 



Mirafra damarensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 650, pi. 75, fig. 2 Ovampo ; 

 id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 522 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 612 

 (1890) Ondonga; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 209(1896); Stark, Faun. 

 S. Afr. B. i. p. 211 (1900). 



Ty2]e. Above mottled pale ashy brown, with narrow pointed blackish 

 shaft-stripes. Wing with the scapulars, coverts and inner secondaries much 

 like the back ; remainder of quills, with the exception of the two outer ones, 

 broadly edged with very pale cinnamon, which colour entirely crosses a 

 large portion of both webs, leaving only the shafts and broad ends dusky 

 brown ; under wing-coverts also pale cinnamon. Upper tail-coverts reaching 

 nearly to the tip of the tail and like the two centre tail-feathers are similar 

 in colouring to the mantle ; remainder of tail-feathers blackish with the 

 outer and terminal margins white, which colour extends over the entire 

 webs of the side feathers. Eyebrow, sides of head and upper half of throat 

 white, slightly shaded with ashy brown on the ear-coverts ; lower throat, 

 breast and under tail-coverts buff ; region of crop with small angular 

 blackish brown spots. Total length 5'3 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3'5, tail 

 22, tarsus 1-1. J' , 14. 11. 66. Ondonga (Andersson). 



The Damara Lark inhabits G-erman South-west Africa. 



The only two specimens known to me of this species were 

 collected by Andersson at Ondonga, in Ovampoland, in October 

 and November, and are now in the British Museum. 



Mirafra africanoides. 



Mirafra africanoides. Smith, Eep. Exped. C. Afr. p. 47 (1836) Cajje Col. ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 616 (1890) Damara, Orange E,, Maka- 

 laka; Fleck, J. f. 0. 1894, p. 411, Damara, Noma; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 211 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 210 (1900). 



Adult. Above pale cinnamon, with blackish shaft-stripes. Wing with 

 broad cinnamon edges to the quills, extending round the ends of the 

 secondaries, this cinnamon only entirely crosses both webs at the base of the 

 feathers, the dark brown near the shaft increases in breadth from the end of 

 the shortest primary covert to the tip of the quill ; under wing-coverts 

 cinnamon, with the edge of the pinion buff. Tail blackish brown with pale 



