616 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [Not. 17, 



Chersomanes africana, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Alcemon africana, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 39 (1854). 

 Certhilauda capensis, Gray, Handl. B. ii. p. 120 (1870). 



Adult. Above brown, slightly washed with sandy colour and 

 streaked with dark brown centres to the feathers, many of which 

 are tipped with whitish ; hind neck greyish ; wing-coverts darker 

 brown, washed with sandy colour on the outer web, and tipped with 

 whitish, the primary coverts narrowly tipped with the latter colour 

 also ; quills ashy brown, narrowly margined with sandy buff, the 

 innermost secondaries with a broad whitish margin; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts sandy rufous, with dark brown central streaks to the 

 feathers ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown, darker brown in the 

 centre of the feathers ; tail-feathers dark brown, narrowly margined 

 with ashy fulvous, the two middle ones washed with greyish, the 

 outermost margined and tipped with pale sandy buff ; a very distinct 

 eyebrow creamy white ; feathers under the eye dusky white, those 

 in front of the latter blackish ; ear-coverts dull sandy colour ; cheeks 

 whitish, minutely spotted with black ; chin white ; rest of under 

 surface buffy white, the breast slightly washed with sandy colour, 

 the lower throat, fore neck, and breast plentifully marked with tri- 

 angular spots of black, larger and more longitudinal on the lower 

 breast and sides of the body ; sides of the upper breast shaded with 

 ashy ; under wing-coverts sandy buff, the outermost minutely 

 spotted with dark brown, the lower series ashy brown, like the 

 inner lining of the wing, the inner webs being pale rufons near the 

 base ; under tail-coverts white, broadly streaked down the centre 

 with black ; " bill yellowish brown, shaded with umber-brown ; legs 

 and toes clear buff-orange, tinted with flesh-red ; claws yellowish 

 brown, shaded with umber-brown ; iris dark brown" (Sir A. Smith). 

 Total length 7'4 inches; culmen 1*05, wing 3"9, tail 3*0, tarsus 

 1-15. 



Female. Coloured like the male (Sir A. Smith). 



Hab. South Africa : " common in most parts of the colony " 

 (Layard) ; Natal (Ay res). 



Specimens examined. 



E mus. R. B. S. : — a, ad. S. Africa (E. L. Layard). b, c. George, 

 S. Africa (H. Atmore). 



E mus. H. B. Tristram : — a. South Africa (E. L. Layard). 



2. Certhilauda garrula. 



Certhilauda garrula, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. pi. cvi. fig. 1 

 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 246 (1850); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 216 

 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 121 (1870). 



Chersomanes garrula, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 126 (1850). 



Alauda garrula, Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. p. 296 (1872). 



Adult male (type of species). Above very dark brown, with nar- 

 row margins of sandy fulvous, the hind neck inclining to ashy grey, 



