124 TEPHROCORYS CINEREA. 



broadest ou the coverts and secondaries and with the outer web of the first 

 primary white ; tail brownish black, the centre pair of feathers with broad 

 pale edges, the outer pair having a white outer margin extending round the 

 end of the feathers, and the penultimate pair having narrow white outer 

 margins ; a broad eyebrow and the cheeks white, the latter shading into 

 pale ashy brown on the ear-coverts and sides of neck ; a small dusky band 

 in front of the eye ; under parts white, slightly washed with rufous brown 

 on the lower throat and on the flanks ; a large patch of chestnut on each 

 side of the crop ; under surface of wings ashy brown, with narrow rufous 

 bufi' inner edges to the quills ; outer under wing-coverts with broad buff 

 edges. " Iris dark hazel ; bill black with the base brown ; legs dark brown " 

 (T. E. Buckley). Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-7, tail 2-7, 

 tarsus 0-85. <? , 3. 6. 81. Newcastle (A. E. Butler). 



Adult female. Like the male, but the feathers on the back of the crown 

 have black shaft-stripes. Wing 36, tail 2'5. $ , 5. 7. 81. Newcastle. 



Type of Alaitda splcniata, Strickl. Similar to the last, but much paler, 

 with the rufous portions of the plumage light cinnamon. Total length 5-8 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 36 (moulting), tail 2-1, tarsus 0-8 (Cambridge 

 Mus.). 



Ty2}e of Mcgalophonus anderssoni, Tristr. Darker and brighter, with the 

 rufous on the sides of the breast extending back to the sides of the under 

 tail-coverts. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-15, tail 2-15 (moult- 

 ing), tarsus 0-8. 13. 3. 65. Otjimbinque (Liverpool Mus.). A very similar 

 specimen, procured at the same place three days earlier, also by Andersson, 

 measures: total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-5 (moulting), 

 tail 2'1, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Very much darker than the adults ; crown, ear-coverts and dark 

 patch on sides of crop blackish brown like the upper parts generally, and 

 with terminal white spots to the feathers placed in the middle of the broad 

 edges. ? , juv., 30. 9. 76. British Kaffraria (F. Barratt). 



The Southern Red-capped Lark ranges from the Cape of 

 Good Hope into Benguela and northward to the Equator in 

 Eastern Africa. 



Anchieta has collected specimens at Benguela, Ambaca and 

 Galanga, where they are known to the natives as the " Tioco," 

 and Van der Kellen has met with others at Humpata, on the 

 Cunene. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage (Orn. Angola, p. 374) 

 remarks : " Two females procured by Anchieta, one at 

 Benguela and the other at Ambaca, are scarcely distinguish- 



