

ALAUDIDJR. Ill 



Macronyx croceus (VieilL). 

 (Plate VI. figs. 5 & 8.) 



Macronyx cvoceus, Gurnet/, Ibis, I860, p. 208; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



x. p. 626 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Viersawml. p. 93 (1899); Stark, 



Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 239 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 4 



(1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 153 (1906). 

 Macronyx striolatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard. Birds S. Africa, p. 532 



(1875-84) 



The eggs of the Yellow-bellied Long-clawed Pipit are of a blunt 

 oval shape and moderately glossy. The eggs of one clutch are 

 white, thickly marked all over with spots and small blotches of 

 reddish-brown and pale purplish-grey. Other eggs are similarly 

 marked, but with pale brown and lavender. Two other examples 

 are greyish-white, rather sparingly freckled and blotched with pale 

 rufous and lavender. They measure from '93 to 1-02 in length, 

 and from '68 to -75 in breadth. 



3. Natal. Old Collection. 



2. Natal (T. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [0.]. 



Family ALAUDID.E. 



Genus CERTHILAUDA, Swains. 



Certhilauda capensis (Bodd. ). 

 (Plate VI. figs. 6 & 7.) 



Alauda capensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. yes. Vog. p. 387, tab. xxvi. fig. 11 



(1845-54). 



Alauda africana, Thien. torn. cit. p. 379, tab. xxvi. fig. 13. 

 Certhilauda capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 494 (1875- 



84) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 514 (1890) ; Stark, Faun. 



S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 233 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 28 (1902) : 



Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 



Eggs of the Cape Long-billed Lark are of a blunt oval form and 

 very slightly glossy. They are variable in colour. Eour specimens, 

 taken by Layard, are cream-colour or whitish, densely mottled and 

 spotted with brown and underlying lavender. Eour examples from 

 the Gould Collection are also cream-colour, but marbled all over with 

 very faint brown and pale grey. Eight eggs vary from '83 to -96 

 in length, and from *64 to '68 in breadth. 



4. South Africa. Gould Coll. 



2. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



2. South Africa (E. L. Layard}. Crowley Bequest. 



