86 PYRRHULAUDA LEUCOTIS. 



baud round the hind neck, but differing mostly in the dark parts of the head 

 and the throat, being chocolate brown with a narrow black edging next to 

 the white of the crown and fore-part of ear-coverts. Lower hind neck 

 black, very slightly mottled with chocolate brown ; back uniform pale brown 

 with a few obsolete dark angular shaft-streaks, and the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts slightly greyer ; wings dark brown with pale edges to all the 

 feathers ; tail with the centre feathers dark brown with paler edges, and the 

 other feathers brownish black with a wedge of white on the outer feather, 

 broadest at the end and covering about one-third of the latter. The 

 chocolate brown of the throat ends in a point and is followed on by a 

 broad band of black down the centre of the body, which includes the under 

 tail-coverts ; sides of body white slightly shaded with dusky ash on the 

 flanks ; greater portion of the under wing-coverts black, the end feathers 

 being brown like the quills, which latter have buff inner margins. Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 04, wing 3-0, tail 1"75, tarsus 0-65. 3 , 21. 4. 

 1900. Lake Rudolf (Harrison). 



Female. Above uniform dark ashy brown ; wings rather darker with pale 

 edges to the feathers of the same shade as the back ; a partially defined 

 •whiter hind neck ; sides of the head and neck, and the under parts huffy 

 white with the ear-coverts mostly dark brown ; throat slightly mottled with 

 rufous buff ; flanks strongly washed with brown ; a broad black band down 

 the centre of the breast ; under tail-coverts, axillaries and most of the under 

 wing-coverts black. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 3'0, tail 17, 

 tarsus 0-65. ? , 21. 4. 1900. Lake Eudolf (Harrison). 



The Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark inhabits the Somali 

 district westward to Lake Rudolf. 



The type was procured in Somaliland by M. Revoil and 

 little is known regarding this form, which has been recently 

 met with by Mr. J. J. Harrison at the south end of Lake 

 Rudolf, April 21, 1900, when a pair were procured and are 

 now in the British Museum. These are the types of P. 

 harrisoni, which have been badly figured, Ibis, 1901, pi. 7. 



Pyrrhulauda leucotis. 



Loxia leucotis, Stanley, in Salt's Trav. Abyss. App. p. 60 (1814) 



Abyssinia. 

 Pyrrhulauda leucotis, Fisch. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 137 Melinda, Wapokomo ; 



Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 73 Ndutian; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. 



p. 657 (1890) Kudurma, Bedjaf, Soiulan, Samhar ; Hartert, Kat. 



Vog. Mus. Senck. p. 41 (1891) Shendy ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 233 



