little-known Species of Lark. 523 



species, I briefly described it in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologic ' 

 under the name of Otocorys berlejjschi, calling it after my 

 friend Freilierr Hans von Berlepsch, In my Catalogue of 

 the Birds in the above-named Museum I gave a more careful 

 description of it. 



This species, however, is so interesting that I wish to 

 introduce it again to the notice of English ornithologists 

 by the accompanying figure, which has been prepared by 

 Mr. Keulemans from a water-colour drawing of the specimen: 

 I add a short description of it. 



Otocorys berlepschi. (Plate XIII.) 



Otocorys berlepschi, Hartert, J. f. O. 1890, p. 103 ; id. Cat. 

 B. Senckenb. Mus. p. 37. 



Top and sides of the head, chin, throat, and upper breast 

 black, with a faint purplish gloss ; ear-coverts tipped with 

 pale brown ; occiput, hind neck, interscapular region, smaller 

 upper wing-coverts, and tail-coverts bright vinaceous cinna- 

 mon ; outer and inner webs of all the quills brown, faintly 

 margined and tipped with brownish grey ; tail dark brown, 

 central pair and outer webs of lateral rectrices paler brown ; 

 lower parts bright vinaceous cinnamon, spotted with brown 

 on the breast and whitish along the middle of the abdomen. 

 Total length about 6*5 inches, wing 4*15, tail 2*8, culmen 

 0*46, tarsus 0'8. The bill is of the somewhat acute form of 

 that of Otocorys bilopha. 



A slip of paper was attached to the stand of the specimen 

 with the words " Alaucla ? Caffraria.'^ This is a somewhat 

 uncertain locality, but I think it is most probable that the 

 bird came from the interior of South Africa, from which we 

 still receive many entirely new forms. 



A somewhat bright rufous coloration is exhibited in the 

 other southern species of Horned Larks. 



The entirely black throat and breast, the brown outer web 

 of the first primary, which is white in all the other species of 

 Otocorys, and the rather rufous colour of the upper and under 

 tail-coverts are the most characteristic features of this species, 

 on which further information would be very acceptable. 



