FRINGILLID^. 189 



231. Fringillaria impetuani (Smith). Lark-like Bunting. 



Fringillaria impetuani, Hartlaub's Orn. Westafrica's, No. 463. 

 Layard's Cat. No. 412. 



Sharpe's Cat. No. 668. 



This species is common in Damara and Great Nama- 

 qua Land ; but as it frequently resorts to the ground in 

 search of seeds and insects, it often thus escapes obser- 

 vation ; it is gregarious, and is partial to broken ground 

 or its immediate vicinity, and also to the neighbourhood 

 of water, which it appears to require pretty constantly. 



The hides are dark brown ; the legs, toes, and upper 

 mandible of the bill a dusky flesh-colour, the lower 

 mandible livid horn-colour. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 59 54 



Length of folded wing ... 3 2 10 



tarsus 07 08 



middle toe .... 6 6 



tail 26 23 



bill 05 4| 



[The male specimen of which the measurements are given 

 above by Mr. Andersson is now preserved in the collection of 

 the Rev. H. B. Tristram. ED.] 



ALAUDID^S. 

 232. Pyrrhulauda Smithi, Bon. Smith's Finch Lark. 



Pyrrhulauda leucotis, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 26. 

 Pyrrhulauda Smithi, Bonaparte's Conspectus, vol. i. p. 512. 

 Pyrrhulauda leucotis, Layard's Oat. No. 420. 



Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 400. 



