PSEUDALJiMON FREMANTLEI. 119 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



a. Sandy rufous ; breast and flanks less striped . fremantlei. 



b. Ashy grey ; breast and flanks more striped . . ddamcrci. 



Pseudalaemon fremantlei. 



Calendula fremantlii, Lort Phillips, Bull. B. 0. C. vi. p. 46 (1897) ; id. 



Ibis, 1897, p. 448 Goolis Mts. 

 Pseudalaemon fremantlii, Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 400, pi. 9, fig. 2 



Soynali. 



Adult male. Above pale sandy brown, whiter on the hind neck, with 

 dark centres to the feathers, narrower on the crown and neck than on the 

 back, and absent on the upper tail-coverts ; wings brown with fairly broad 

 sandy brown edges to the feathers ; tail short and square, dark brown with 

 very narrow sandy edges, and the greater part of the outer web of the tail 

 and a portion of the outer webs of the penultimate feathers white ; sides of 

 the head, with the cheek, space under the eye and a broad eyebrow white, 

 beneath which is a blackish band through the eye and uppermost ear- 

 coverts, branching off downwards round the fore part of the ear-coverts ; the 

 remainder of the ear-coverts deep chestnut, with the front lower quarter 

 white ; throat white, the lower portion flanked on each side by a large patch 

 of black ; under surface of the body white, shaded with tawny buff on the 

 crop and flanks ; a few brown spots on the lower throat and many of the 

 feathers of the crop and flanks with tawny centres or shaft-stripes to the 

 feathers ; under surface of the wing dusky with the coverts and partial inner 

 edges of the quills rufous buff. Iris light hazel ; bill pale horn brown ; tarsi 

 and feet flesh colour. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-4, tail 1-9, 

 tarsus 0-85. ^ , 18. 2. 97. 



Adult female (type). Similar in plumage to the adult male. Total length 

 in the flesh 5-7 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-3, tail 17, tarsus 0-75. ? , 

 16. 2. 97. Gedais (Lort Phillips). 



Freemantle's Short-tailed Lark inhabits Somaliland. 



I cannot iind anything recorded regarding the habits of 

 this peculiar species, although it is apparently plentiful in 

 Somaliland, at least in certain localities. 



It is the type of Psetidalxmon, a genus which belongs to the 



