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outer feather sandy white, with a dusky wedge-shaped patch on the inner 

 web ; penultimate feather with the white confined to the outer web ; eye- 

 brow, feathers under the eye, and the ear-coverts sandy buff, with a blackish 

 mark in front of the eye and on the cheeks ; ear-coverts and sides of the 

 upper throat with a few dark shaft-streaks ; sides of neck sandy brown with 

 dark brown shaft-stripes ; under surface generally white, shaded with sandy 

 brown on the crop and flanks ; lower throat with dark brown angular spots ; 

 flanks slightly streaked with rufous shaded brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 inner margins of the quills rufous buff, with the remainder of the quills 

 dusky. Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 3-55, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. 

 S , 23. 7. 94. The Haud (Donaldson Smith). 



The Somali Short-toed Lark inhabits Somaliland. 



In tlie British Museum there is the type, procured by Dr. 

 A. Donaldson Smith in The Haud, July 23rd, 1894, and two 

 specimens collected by Mr. C. V. A. Peel, at Byk. Mr. Elliot 

 also met with the species on the Silo Plain. It would appear 

 to have a very restricted range, for I do not find it recorded 

 from beyond the limits of the Somali country. It is a typical 

 Galandrella, with the longest secondaries reaching to the tip of 

 the wing and the shortest falling short of the end of the wing 

 by one inch. 



Galandrella conirostris. 



Alauda conirostris, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 99 



Magaliesberg. 

 Spizocorys conirostris, T. Ayres, Ibis, 1884, p. 231 Potchefstroom ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 564, 1890 pt. Ondonga, Gt. Nainaqua, 



Transvaal; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 189 (1896); Stark, Faun. S. Afr. 



B. i. p. 220 (1900). 



Adult. Above mottled with broad brownish black centres and pale 

 brown edges to the feathers ; outer web of the first long primary white ; tail 

 with terminal white ends to the feathers, the white pattern extending over 

 rather more than the outer webs of the outer pair of feathers, diminishing in 

 amount on the penultimate ones but extending down the whole length and 

 down about two-thirds of the outer web of the next feather ; sides of the head, 

 with a broad eye-brow and a patch under the eye to the bill white, with a 

 black band in front of the eye ; a black line from the gape margining the white 

 beneath the eye and losing itself in the blackish brown of the ear-coverts, 



