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Larks very common on the highlands, in small flocks. Harris 

 obtained a specimen at Angollala. Antinori collected others 

 at Licce and Tuor Hamesh, and Ragazzi at Antoto. An egg, 

 obtained by Antinori, much resembled that of Alauda arvensis, 

 and according to his observations, this Lark lays only one egg 

 in a nest. He also met with the species in Northern Abyssinia, 

 at Adghelghel. The type was discovered at Senafe by Mr. 

 Blanford, who found the species to be common there as well 

 as at Adigrat, and he procured the type of his Alauda 

 arenicola var. fusca at Lake Ashangi. A Semien specimen, 

 from Riippell's collection in the Frankfort Museum, is the 

 type of Galerida ruppelli, Hartert. 



Genus VIII. HELIOCORYS. 



Similar to Galerita, but differs in the crest feathers being shorter. The 

 members of this genus are of small size ; wing 3-1 to 3-3 inches, and the 

 bastard-primary extends well beyond the end of the primary-coverts. 



Type. 



Heliocorys, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 623 (1890) . , . H. bucolica. 



Heliocorys modesta. 



Galerita modesta, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 274 Bongo; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 



No. 222 (1896) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1902, p. 294 Gold Coast. 

 Heliocorys modesta, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 623 (1890) Kuderma, 



Tomaja, Bedjaf, Tobho. 

 Mirafra bucolica, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. 1886, p. 327 Fadjuli, Tomaja, Kaba- 



jendi, Kuderma. 

 Heliocorys modesta giifardi, Hartert, Bull. B. 0. C. x. p. 5 (1899) ; id. Nov. 



Zool. 1899, p. 415 Gambaga. 



Adult male. Similar in colouring to G. senegalensis, but darker; the dark 

 centres to the feathers of the crown and mantle being broad and the edges 

 tawny-shaded earthy brown ; crest short; hind neck paler than the back; 

 upper tail-coverts uniform deep rufous brown. Wing : with a long bastard 

 primary extending beyond the primary-coverts ; under surface dusky brown, 

 with the inner edges of the quills and broad edges to the coverts deep rufous 



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