96 AMMOMANES PHCENICUROIDES. 



The type of the species came from the former country and 

 is now in the Cambridge Museum. Chapman found this Lark 

 in but one locality, viz., in the neighboiirhood of "Walfisch 

 bay. The species has been met with in Damara by Wahl- 

 berg, Andersson and Mr. A. Brickson in May and November, 

 and all their specimens were obtained at Walfisch bay. 

 These western birds are slightly paler than the Transvaal 

 specimens examined by me, which latter were killed in June 

 and November. This may be due to the season, but is more 

 probably the effect of the climate, which differs greatly in 

 these two countries, being much dryer in the former than in 

 the latter district. 



The specimen figured (Ibis, 1874, pi. 3, fig. 2) is a female, 

 shot by Mr. T. Ayres, who found it " amongst some rocks and 

 stones in the range of low hills some three or four miles from 

 Potchefstroom ; it had a peculiar knack of hiding itself by 

 creeping over and about the bits of rock." All his speci- 

 mens were procured near Potchefstroom on June 20 and 

 November 2. 



Ammomanes phcenicuroides. 



Mirafra phcEnicuroides, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxii. p. 583 (1853). 

 Ammomanes phcEnicuroides, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 647 (1890) S. 



Arabia to Afghanistan ; Hartert, Kat. Yog. Mus. Senck. p. 41 (1891) 



Caspian Sea. 

 Ammomanes lusitanica parvirostris, Hartert, J. f. 0. 1890, p. 156, 



Caspian Sea. 

 Ammomanes akeleyi, Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. No. 17, Orn. No. 2. 



p. 39 (1897) Somali; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 401; Hawker, 



Ibis, 1899, p. 65 Somali; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1901, p. 303 Somali; 



Grant and Eeid, Ibis, 1901, p. 629 Somali. 



Adult. Similar in general appearance to A. deserti, but readily distin- 

 guished by the dull, browner, and less rufous shade of the plumage, especially 

 of the wings, tail-coverts and tail, also in the crop being rather more 

 strongly spotted ; the pale edges to the outer webs of the primaries never 



