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Mirafra woodward!, Milliyan. 

 (Plate VII. fig. 18.) 



Mirafra woodwardi, Milliqan, Viet. Nat. xviii. p. 25 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l.v. p. 172(1900). 



Pour eggs of Woodward's Bush-Lark are of a wide, slightly 

 pointed oval form and distinctly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 greenish- white or greyish-white, thickly spotted all over with dark 

 brown, olive-brown, and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : 

 73 by -55 ; -74 by -08 ; -75 by '57 ; 77 by -57. 



L West Australia. T. Carter, Esq. [0.]. 



Mirafra cantillans, Blyili. 

 (Plate VII. figs. 20 & 21.) 



Mirafra cantillans, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 605 (1890) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 333 (1890) ; id., eel Hume, Nests # 



Ind. Birds, ii. p. 227 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 134 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 173 (1906). 



The eggs of the Singing Bush-Lark vary from a pointed to a 

 blunt oval form and are moderately glossy. They are greyish- 

 white or pale greenish-white, densely marked with two or more 

 shades of brown and underlying lavender or purplish- grey. Some 

 specimens are very distinctly spotted ; others are mottled and 

 blotched. Several specimens measure from *7 to '88 in length, and 

 from '55 to *62 in breadth. 



3. Sind. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Lahore, Punjab, 7th June (C. 11. Hume Coll. 



T. Marshall}. 



2. Jhansi, C. Provs., June (F. R. Hume Coll. 



Bkwitt}. 



2. Jhansi, 27th July (F. R. B.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Jhansi, Aug. (F. JR. B.). Hume Coll. 



1. Hoshungabad, C. Provs., 16th Hume Coll. 



April (E. C. Nunn}. 



Mirafra damarensis, Sharpe. 



Mirafra damarensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 012 (1890) ; Stark, 

 Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 211 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 58 

 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 173 (1906). 



Eggs of the Damaraland Bush-Lark are of a rounded or some- 

 what pointed oval form and very slightly glossed. The ground-colour 

 is whitish, more or less profusely mottled, spotted, or speckled with 

 reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, and lilac-grey. They measure from 

 74 to *8 in length, and from '58 to *61 in breadth. 



3. Ondonga, Ovampoland ( C. J. Crowley Bequest. 



Andersson : Tristram Coll.}. 



2. Ondonga, 19th January (C. J. A. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



