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The White-fronted Sparrow-La.rk inhabits North-east 

 Africa from Somaliland to the Tropic of Cancer and ranges 

 eastward to India. 



The most southern known range for the species is about 

 10° N. lat., or the neighbourhood of Berbera in North Somali- 

 land ; here specimens have been collected by M. Revoil and 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith. Between Manda and Zaila Mr. A. B. 

 Pease found them breeding in great numbers, in March. On 

 the opposite coast, near Aden, it has been met with by Lieut. 

 H. B. Barnes and Mr. Hawker, and is apparently abundant 

 along both shores of the southern half of the Red Sea, for 

 Rtippell records it from Arabia. On Socotra, Prof. Balfour 

 found these Larks very common on the low-lying plains on 

 both sides of the island, and remarks that they have a wailing 

 note, whicli is to be heard at daybreak, and the last sound 

 at night. Along the African coast of the Red Sea Heuglin 

 generally met with it in pairs and found it on the island of 

 Dahlac. Mr. Cholraley shot two speciuiens at Berenice and 

 Mr. Blanford collected others at Anneley Bay in January, 

 at Massowa and Amba on the Samhar coast in August, and 

 considered them to be extremely abundant in all the sandy 

 country near the coast. They rarely if ever perched on bushes, 

 several keeping about one spot, but did not exactly associate 

 in flocks, and when disturbed rose one after the other, not 

 simultaneously, but flying oflF without keeping close to each 

 other. 



At the Fifth Cataract of the Nile Galton procured a 

 specimen which is in the British Museum, and in Riippell's 

 collection there is an example from Kordofan, its most western 

 known range. Along the Nile, above Khartoum, Mr. H. F. 

 Witherby found these Larks plentiful, in small companies, 

 on the grassy flats as well as among the bushes in the sandy 

 districts, crouching in parties of five or six in the shade. 



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