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shaded with rufous on the primary-coverts and towards the base of the 

 secondaries and clear cinnamon on the eight inner primaries, where this 

 colour extends half way across the outer webs ; the outer two primaries are 

 narrowly edged with rufous, which passes into buff ou the second primary 

 beyond the end of the bastard-primary ; under surface of the wing with 

 the coverts and broad inner margins of the quills extending half way across 

 their inner webs, rufous buff ; tail blackish with a strongly marked white 

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

 wedge-shaped dusky patch on the basal half of the inner web ; penultimate 

 feather similarly coloured but with a large dusky patch reaching nearly to 

 the end of the tail ; the next feather has a white outer edge extending its 

 whole length ; eyebrows, cheeks, sides of upper half of neck and the under 

 parts generally white, tinted with buif on the breast ; ear-coverts pale brown 

 shading into black on the hinder part ; sides of the lower neck mottled 

 with ash like the hind neck ; lower throat spotted with black and separated 

 from the sides of the lower neck by a fairly well-marked dusky black band. 

 " Iris hazel ; bill dusky ; paler below ; tarsi and feet honi-colour " (Hawker). 

 Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-25, tail 2, tarsus 0-85. 

 S, 20. 11. 99. Althi R. (Delamere.) 



The White-tailed Lark inhabits East Africa from the 

 Uniamwesi country to about 9° N. lat. on the Nile. 



The type was discovered by Fischer at Gonda, close to 

 Taboro, which is the most southern- known range for the 

 species. From further north-east Mr. Neumann procured a 

 male at Kavinjiro, December 11, 1893, and five days later 

 a pair at Donje Ngai. Lord Delamere has also met with it 

 at the Athi river, and Mr. Hawker procured a fine series of 

 three males and four females twenty miles north of Fashoda, 

 April 12, 1901, and a specimen at Kaka on May 2. 



Mirafra buckleyi. (PL 19, %• l.) 



Calendrella buckleyi, Shelley, Ibis, 1873, p. 142 Accra; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 



1875, p. 43 Accra. 

 Mirafra buckleyi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 599 Accra; Shelley, B. Afr. 



I. No. 197 (1896) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 340 Niger. 



Type. Above mottled, crown and back of neck pale tawny brown, with 

 rather narrow blackish shaft-stripes ; mantle paler ashy brown, with large 

 dark centres and partially defined black shaft-stripes to the feathers, lower 



