CALANDRELLA RAZ.E. 137 



C. starki, witli which it has up to the present time been 

 associated. It is known to me only by the two specimens T 

 have described. 



Callandrella razse. 



Spizocorys razse, Alexander, Ibis, 1898, pp. 107, 282, pi. 3, Baza Is. ; 

 Socage Jorn. Lisboa, 1898, p. 146 ; Fea. Boll. Soc. Geog. Ital. (3) 

 xii. pp. 309, 310 (1899) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1899, p. 295. 



Adult male (type.) Above mottled, pale ashy brown with broad dusky 

 black centres to the feathers ; wings slightly browner than the back with the 

 outer web of the first primary white ; outer tail-feather white, with a rather 

 small dusky wedge-shaped patch on the inner web ; penultimate tail-feather 

 with the entire outer web white ; sides of head mottled white and dusky ash ; 

 sides of neck white ; throat and under surface of the body white with sharply 

 marked blackish shaft-stripes on the crop and less distinct stripes on the 

 flanks ; crop, flanks and thighs slightly tinted with brown ; under wing- 

 coverts ashy white ; under surface of the quills dusky ash, with indistinct, 

 partial, narrow buff inner edges. " Iris dark hazel ; bill blackish horn, 

 whitish towards the base of the lower mandible ; tarsi and feet brownish 

 flesh-colour ; claws blackish horn." Total length 59 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 3'25, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female (type). Exactly like the male in plumage. Total length 

 5-0 inches, culmen 05, wing 3-0, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-8. J , ? , 28. 4. 97. 

 Eaza Is. (Boyd Alexander). 



The Raza Island Short-toed Lark is confined, apparently, 

 to the small desert island of Raza, one of the Cape Verde 

 Group, in about 16° 40' N. lat. 24° 40' B. long. 



This island, on which Captain Boyd Alexander discovered 

 this Lark, has an area of about three square miles and is 

 one of the Desertas, having no fresh water, and no inhabitants. 

 An interesting description of this island is given by Captain 

 Alexander (Ibis, 1898, p. 105) and he further writes {t. c. 

 p. 282) : " On October 7th we approached Raza for the 

 second time within the year, and we discovered the males 

 of this very local species all busy in courting tlieir mates. 

 With wings drooping and scraping along the ground, a male 



