ALAUDID.E 



MIKAFBA 



213 



Adult female. Resembles the male but is smaller, with a more 

 slender bill. 



Length 6-75; wing 3*50 ; tail 2-70; tarsus 1-15; culmen O70. 



Young. Above, brown, with but little chestnut-red, the feathers 

 tipped with fulvous and barred subterminally with black crescents ; 

 below dull buff-white, the breast tinged with reddish-brown and 

 mottled with bars of deeper red-brown. 



Mirafra africana. 



Distribution. From Eastern Cape Colony through Natal, 

 Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabililand, and the 

 Portuguese Territory as far north as Zanzibar. On the West coast 

 from the Cunene Eiver to Gaboon. In Cape Colony it is not rare 

 in the district between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown and 

 thence to East London and Griqualand East. In Natal it is 

 somewhat common in suitable localities, and in the Transvaal is 

 tolerably plentiful and resident between the Vaal and Hartz Rivers, 

 to the west of Potchefstroom. It occurs near Rustenburg and 

 breeds abundantly on the Marico and Limpopo Rivers. Moffat 



