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Eggs of the Thick-billed Lark are of a regular oval shape and 

 devoid of gloss. Some are cream-coloured, densely mottled with 

 brown and lavender- or purplish-grey, especially at the broad end. 

 Others are greenish-white blotched with olive-brown and lilac-grey. 

 They measure from '85 to '93 in length, and from '61 to '09 in 

 breadth. 



4. South Africa. Gould Coll. 



1. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Salvm-Godinan Coll. 



2. South Africa (E. L. L. : Tristram Growl ey Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. South Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Bloemfontein, 0. R. C., 22nd April. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



Genus AMMOMANES, Cab. 



Ammomanes phcenicura (Frankl.). 



(Plate VIII. figs. 19 & 20.) 



Aimuonianes phoenicura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 642 (1890) ; 

 Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 339 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, 

 Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 240 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml 

 p. 135 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 183 (1908). 



The eggs of the Rufous-tailed Desert-Lark are mostly of a broad 

 pointed oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a creamy- or 

 pale yellowish-white, speckled and freckled all over, but most 

 densely at the broad end, with yellowish- or pale reddish-brown 

 and underlying purplish-grey. They measure from -78 to *9 in 

 length, and from -55 to -63 in breadth. 



3. Hoshungabad, C. Provs., India, Hume Coll & 



28th April (E. C. Nunn). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Raipur, C. Provs., April (F. R. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt}. 



2. Raipur, 15th April (F. R. B.). Hume Coll. 

 14. Raipur (F. R. B.}. Hume Coll. 



Ammomanes grayi, Wahlb. 



Ammomanes grayi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 643 (1890) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 135 (1899) ; Stark, Faun. 8. Afr., Birds, i. p. 198 

 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 103 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand I. v. 

 p. ]85 (1908J. 



Two eggs of Gray's Desert-Lark closely resemble certain types 

 of those laid by A. phcenicura, having the ground-colour white, 

 densely and finely freckled over the entire surface of the shell with 

 yellowish-brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : -83 by 

 6 ; -86 by -6. 



Ondonga, Ovampoland, 25th April Crowley Bequest. 



(C.J.Andersson: Tristram Coll.}. 

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