70 MIRAFRA COLLARIS. 



white, least upper wing-coverts rufous, the middle and larger ones and the 

 primary coverts with blackish centres ; quills blackish brown, the primaries 

 with bright rufous outer edges, the secondaries with smaller rufous edges, 

 and the inner one has a black marginal line ; tail feathers blackish brown 

 with ashy brown outer edges, the outermost one with the outer web bright 

 yellowish brown. Total length 40 inches, culmen 0-72, wing 3'6, tail 2, 

 tarsus 1'32 " (Eeichenow). 



Reichenow's Dusky Lark inhabits German East Africa to 

 the south of Bagamoyo, 



This species is known to me only by the description of 

 the type, which is recorded as having been procured by Dr. 

 Fiilleborn at " Eltonpass nordlich des Kondelandes." 



This pass is south of Bagamoyo, between that town and 

 Konduchi, a name, according to Keith Johnston, " given to a 

 group of villages surrounded by cocoa-nut trees on the shores 

 of a shallow bay. The inhabitants are described by Captain 

 Elton as hard-working fishermen and cultivators." 



Mirafra collaris. (Pi. 19, fig. 2.) 



Mirafra collaris, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. v. p. 24 (1896) Lake Rudolf; 

 Donaldson Smith, " Through Unknown African Countries," p. 126, 

 fig. (1897). 



Ti/pe. Above rich cinnamon, with broad white sides to the feathers of 

 the mantle and inner portions of the wings ; edges slightly more buff on the 

 crown and wing-coverts ; back and ides of upper neck greyish black, with 

 broad buff edges to the feathers like the hinder part of the eyebrow, which is 

 otherwise uniform buff ; upper tail-coverts dusky grey, with whitish edges 

 and black shafts. Tail with black shafts ; these shafts, like those of the 

 quills, have the basal portion on the under side white, centre four feathers 

 slaty grey with broad pale rufous edges ; remainder of the tail blacker, with 

 a narrowish buff edge to the outer feather. Wings ; quills, inner three 

 secondaries excepted, dusky brownish black, with broad buff ends to most 

 of the secondaries and a few of the inner primaries, and buff edges to the 

 outer feathers ; under wing-coverts pale cinnamon, and reaching to the end 

 of the pale rufous patch which extends over the entire base of the quills 

 and the basal portion of the under surface of the shafts is white. Ear- 

 coverts rich cinnamon ; cheeks buff mottled with black and surmounted by 

 a band of black beneath the eye ; chin and upper throat buff, followed by 



