

222 ALAUDID^ TEPHEOCOEYS 



126. Tephrocorys cinerea. Bed-capped Lark. 



Alauda cinerea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 798 (1788). 



La petite Alouette & tete rousse, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. iv, p. 137, pi. 



199 (1805). 

 Megalophomis cinereus, Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 382 (1844) ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 212 (1867) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 295, 1878, p. 410 ; Gurney 



in Andersson's B. Damara Land, p. 197 (1872) ; Holub and Pelzeln, 



Orn. Sildafr. p. 136 (1882). 

 Tephrocorys cinerea, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 633 ; id. ed. Layard's B. 



S.Afr. pp. 511, 851 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 561 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 14 (1896). 



" Inkelde Leeuwerk " of the Dutch. 



Tephrocorys cinerea. 



Description. Adult male in winter. Above, ash-colour mottled 

 with dark brown ; crown bright chestnut-red, the nape paler than 

 the back ; wing-coverts brown edged with fawn-colour ; quills dark- 

 brown edged with reddish-brown, the outer with buff; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, the outer web of the outermost and the edge of the 

 next white ; some feathers of forehead, a distinct eyebrow, lores, 

 feathers below eye and cheeks white ; ear-coverts reddish ; sides of 

 neck grey ; under surface of body white, the centre of breast and 

 sides tinged with fulvous, a patch of chestnut-red on each side of 

 breast ; edge of wing whitish ; under wing-coverts grey. 



