hy Mr. Clande Grant in South xifrica. 255 



mandibles pale yellowish horii-coloured ; le^-s and toes fleshy 

 brown.] 



MiRAFRA RUFOCINNAMOMEA. 



Shelley, Eds. Afr. iii. 1902, p. 45. 



Tv. Klein Letaba, Sept. (1). 



A Lark taken in the North-East Transvaal seems un- 

 doubtedly referable to this species, which is new to South 

 Africa. It has hitherto been known from Ugogo in German 

 East Africa, and north to Abyssinia, ^vhence came the type 

 described by Salvadori. There is only one example in the 

 British jNIuseum — the type of M. torrida Shelley; obtained 

 by Sir John Kirk in Ugogo. The Transvaal example matches 

 it very well. 



[One specimen of tlds species was taken in the low country 

 of the North-Eastern Transvaal, where it was distinctly 

 uncommon. It was shot running on the ground in an open 

 grassy flat. 



The soft parts are : — Irides hazel : bill very dark horn- 

 coloured, lower mandible slaty ; legs and toes slaty.] 



MiRAFRA ZOMB/E. 



Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. 1902, p. 27 ; Claude 

 Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, p. 111. 



P. Masambeti, Nov. (1). 



This species, new to South Afi'ica, and before noted from 

 the low country in Nyasaland — Zomba, Lake Shirwa, and 

 Milanji slopes, had been previously confused with M. fischeri, 

 from which it differs in having the upper parts dusky, 

 streaked with darker and without transverse pattern. 



[A single specimen, the only one seen of this Nyasaland 

 species, was shot on an open grassy flat, bordering some 

 cultivated land, where the Masambeti stream disappears 

 into the veld. 



The soft parts are: — Irides hazel ; bill dark horn-coloured, 

 lower mandible yellowish ; legs and toes livid.] 



123. MiRAFRA APIATA. 



CC. Plettenberg Bay, Feb., Mch. (4) ; Klipfouteiu, 

 July (1). 



[" Monad- vogel " of Colonists. 



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