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Type. 

 Calandrella, Kaup. Natiirl. Syst. p. 39 (1829) . . . C. bracliydactyla. 

 Spizocorys, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 55 (1873) . . 0. conirostris. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



«!. Throat with few or no spots. 



a^. Bill stout-er and shorter ; pale pattern of 



outer tail-feather sandy buff .... hrachydactyla. i ^ < 

 &2. Billlonger and more slender; pale pattern 



of outer tail-feather white acutirostris. ' 1 I 



b^. Lower throat much spotted, 

 c^. Bill shorter and stouter ; culmen much 

 curved. 

 a^. Larger; wing 3'3 to 3'55. 



a*. Upper parts mostly ashy grey . . athensis. '^'- 

 b^. Upper parts mostly sandy brown . somalica.i^Z- 

 63 Smaller; wing 3-0 to 3-2. 



c*. Bill smaller; plumage darker and 



less sandy ; no crest conirostris. ' ? ■'' 



d^. Bill larger ; general plumage above 

 sandy buff, beneath nearly white ; 



a distinct crest starhi, n. sp. ''^ 



d°. Bill longer ; culmen less curved. 



c^. Bill more wedge-shaped sclateri, n. sp. ' 7 ^ 



d^. Bill less wedge-shaped razee. ) j . 



Calandrella bracliydactyla. 



Alauda hrachydactyla, Leisler, Wetterau Gesellsch. Ann. iii. pp. 357-359 



(1814). 

 Calandrella brachydactyla, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 580 (1890) 



Abyssinia; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 192 (1896). 



Adult. Above mottled sandy brown, with blackish brown centres to the 

 feathers of the crown, mantle and upper tail-coverts ; rump uniform rufous 

 tinted pale brown ; wing dark brown, with sandy brown edges to the 

 feathers, broad on the coverts and secondaries and narrow on the primaries, 

 excepting the first long quill, which has the outer web white ; under surface 

 of the wing with the coverts and inner edges of the quills white. Tail 

 blackish brown, the centre pair of feathers broadly edged with sandy brown ; 



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