112 ALAUDIDJE. 



Certhilauda albofasciata, Lafr. 



(Plate VI. figs. 10 & 12.) 



Certhilauda rufula, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds 8. Afr. p. 496 (1875-84) ; 



Butler, Feilden # Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 297 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xiii. p. 515 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 132 (1899) ; Stark. 



Faun. S. Afr., Birds, \. p. 234 (1900). 

 Certhilauda albofasciata, Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 22 (1902) ; Sharpe, 



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



Eggs of the Rufous Long-billed Lark are of a pointed or blunt 

 oval shape and moderately glossy. They are usually dull white or 

 greenish-white, more or less densely speckled all over with 

 yellowish-brown and purplish-grey. One egg is dull white, 

 blotched with lavender and brownish-yellow. Two eggs taken at 

 Maribogo are creamy-white, densely spotted with yellowish -brown, 

 the spots forming a wide yellowish-brown zone round the larger 

 end. They measure from -74 to -84 in length, and from -55 to '6 

 in breadth. 



3. Newcastle, Natal. Capt. Savile G. Reid [0.]. 



2. Newcastle, 16th Oct. Major R. Sparrow [P.J. 



3. Ino-agagrie River, near Newcastle, Cro'wley Bequest. 



27th Sept. (E. A. Butler}. 



2. Maribogo, 50 miles N. of Vryburg, R. B. Woosnam, Esq. fC.l. 



O.R.C., 3rd April. 



2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 3rd Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.I 



2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 27th Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.J. 



2. Kroonstad, O.R.C., 18th Nov. Major R. Sparrow [P.I 



2. Rietfontein, O.R.C., llth Aug. Major R.. Sparrow [P.J. 



1. Potchefstroom, Transvaal ( T. Ay res : Ci owley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



Genus AUEMON, Keys. $ Blasivs. 



Alaemon alaudipes (Desf.). 



(Plate VI. figs. 9 & 11.) 



Alauda desertorum, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxvi. fig. 12, a, b 



(1845-54). 

 Certhilauda desertorum, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427 ; Loche, Expl. Sci. 



Alger., Ois. ii. p. 43 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 275 (1874). 

 Alauda bifasciata, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iii. p. 105, pi. (1875). 

 Certhilauda alaudipes, Dresser, torn. cit. p. 273 (1881) ; Shelley, Birds 



Afr. iii. p. 19 (1902) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 375 



(1902). 

 Alajmon alaudipes, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 518 (1890) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml p. 132 (1899); Whitaker, Birds Tunis, i. p. 241 



(1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 



Four eggs of the Western Desert-Lark, or Bifasciated Lark, are 

 of an ordinary oval form and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 greyish-white, spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end 

 than elsewhere, with pale olive-brown and pale purplish-grey. 



