212 ALAUDID^ MIBAFEA 



tinged externally with buff, the basal two-thirds of the primaries, 

 and a less extent of the secondaries, rufous ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 the centre feathers tinged with grey and edged and tipped with 

 whitish, the three outer feathers bordered and tipped with white, 

 the outer web of the outermost entirely white ; lores, eyebrow, and 

 sides of face white; ear-coverts brownish; under surface white, 

 tinged with cream colour below the throat, the chest speckled with 

 dark brown ; thighs buff ; under wing-coverts and base of quills 

 rufous. 



Length 5-50 ; wing 3-45 ; tail 2-40 ; tarsus 1-10 ; culmen 0-65. 



Distribution. Ovampo Land : the type was procured by Ander- 

 sson at Ondongo, in November, 1866. 



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119. Mirafra africana. fiufoiis-naped Lark. 



Mirafra africana, Smith, Rep. Exp. Centr. Afr., 1836, p. 47 ; id. III. 



Zool. S. Afr. Birds, pi. 88, fig. 1 (1843) ; Sliarpe, ed. Layard's 



B. S. Afr. pp. 519, 851 (1884) ; id, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 607 (1890) ; 



Shelley,' B. Afr. i. p. 16 (1896). 

 Megalophonus africamis, Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 382 (1844) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 212 (1867). 

 Megalophonus rostratus, Hartlaub, Ibis, 1863, p. 326, pi. 9 ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 213 (1867). 



Description. Adult male in summer. Above, brown, the feathers 

 margined with reddish-brown and streaked centrally with black; 

 wing-coverts bay-red streaked with brown ; quills chestnut-red 

 for the basal three-fourths, the terminal fourth brown ; crown and 

 nape chestnut-red streaked with black ; the forehead darker, mottled 

 with black; lores and eyebrow buff; ear-coverts and cheeks buff 

 spotted with brown ; throat dull white ; rest of under surface buff, 

 the breast and sides tinged with chestnut, the lower throat and 

 sides of chest sparingly marked with triangular black streaks ; 

 axillaries, under wing-coverts, and under surface of quills, excepting 

 the ends, chestnut-red. 



Iris hazel; upper mandible dusky, the edges and the under 

 mandible yellowish-brown ; legs and feet flesh-colour. 



Length 7-00; wing 3-80 ; tail 2-90; tarsus 1-20; culmen 0-80. 



Adult male in winter. Much darker than in summer ; the crown 

 broadly streaked with dark brown ; forehead dark brown ; back 

 of neck and rump tinged with grey 

 breast more spotted. 



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