68 MIRAFRA ANGOLENSIS. 



back nearly uniform pale brown ; upper tail-coverts cinnamon, with blackish 

 shaft-stripes. Tail blackish brown, with broad rufous edges to the centre 

 pair of feathers, and a rufous buif pattern on the outer two pairs, extending 

 over two-thirds of the outer feather, the other third being a wedge-shaped 

 blackish patch on the inner web ; peuultimate feather with the outer web 

 rufous buff. Wing dark brown with buff edges to the feathers, which are 

 slightly more rufous on the middle quills ; wing-liuings dusky ash, with 

 partial rufous buff edges to the quills, and the coverts buff like the under 

 surface of ihe body. Eyebrow, sides of head, throat and sides of upper 

 neck sandy buff, slightly paler than the breast ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 mottled with dark brown ; lower throat and crop with dark brown angular 

 shaft- spots. Iris brown ; bill brown ; darker on the upper mandible and tip 

 of lower one ; tarsi and feet brownish flesh colour. Total length 5'3 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-9. S , Accra, 2. 72 (Shelley). 



Buckley's Lark inhabits the Grold Coast and the Niger 

 district. 



During my visit to the Gold Coast in company with Mr. 

 T. E. Buckley, we discovered this species near Accra, where 

 in February and March they were fairly abundant, and to 

 be found singly or in pairs on the sandy plain, which is much 

 interspersed with bushes. We never observed them to mount 

 in the air, but when disturbed they flew rather in a Pipit-like 

 manner for a short distance. Dr. Reichenow, however, who 

 also found the species abundant at Accra, likens it to our 

 Skylark in its manner of soaring in the air, and singing. 

 According to Mr. Hartert, these Larks are not uncommon in 

 the neighbourhood of Loko, and ai"e to be met with north- 

 ward throughout the more open country between Kashia 

 and Saria. 



Mirafra angolensis. 



Mirafra angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, pp. 59, 67 Caconda ; 1893, 

 p. 14 Galanga ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 593 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 203 (1896) ; Hartert, BuU. B. O. C. xi. p. 64 (1901) 

 Caconda. 



Types. " Remarkable by the brick red colouring of the upper parts. Bill 

 similar in size and form to that of 31. africana. The two specimens differ 



