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In one specimen the blotches of yellowish-brown are very large. 

 They measure respectively 1'04 by '12 and 1*1 by '75. 



1. Algeria (Locke). 



1. El Aghouat, Algeria, April (Locke : 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. South of El Aghouat, April (Dr. 



Rebond: Tristram Coll.). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. & 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Alaemon pallida (Blyth). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 13.) 



Alsemon desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 519 (1890) 

 [part.]; Oates, Fauna Brit. Lid., Birds, ii. p. 318 (1890); id., 

 ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 219 (1890). 



Alsemon pallida, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 155 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Eastern Desert-Lark are of the same shape as 

 those of A. alaudipes, but have an appreciable amount of gloss. 

 One specimen is very pale greenish-white, spotted and blotched 

 with pale olive-brown and dark purplish-grey. The other is also 

 greenish-white, but is thickly mottled with olive-brown, not 

 blotched as in the first specimen, and the underlying purplish-grey 

 markings are few and inconspicuous. They measure respectively : 

 1-02 by 74; -98 by -71. 



2. Jask. Persian Gulf, 15th April 

 (Ffinch). 



Hume Coll. 



Alaemon damarensis, Sharpe. 

 (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Alsemon damarensis, Sharpe. Ibis, 1904. p. 361 ; id.. Hand-l. v. p. 155 

 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Damaraland Desert-Lark are of a rather broad 

 and slightly-pointed oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. They 

 are dull white, with fine spots and small blotches of yellowish- 

 brown and lavender-grey scattered all over the shell, but most 

 numerous towards the larger end. They measure respectively 

 97 by -7 and -92 by -71. 



2. Otjimbinque, Damaraland (C. J. 

 Andersson : Tristram Coll.). 



Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CHERSOPHILUS, Sharpe. 



Chersophilus duponti ( Vieill.'}. 



(Plate VI. fig. 15.) 



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

 Alger., Ois. ii. p. 42 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 279 (1873) j 

 id., Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 376 (1902). 



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