1874.] LARKS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 635 



total length 5 inches, oilmen 0-45, wing 315, tail 2-15, tarsus 8 

 I do not, however believe that it has got its perfect plumage, the 

 tail being still in full moult. & 



Specimens examined. 



Emus. Brit. :—a, ad. South Africa (Sir A. Smith), b, e. Cape of 

 Good Hope, d, S ad. Cape Town, Sept. 24, 1866 (C. J. Andersson). 



E mus. R. B S. :—b, ad. South Africa (Layard). c, ad. Coles- 

 berg (D. Arnot). d, juv. Graham's Town (E. L. Layard) e f 

 6 2 ad. Transvaal (T. Ayres). 9 ' ' J ' 



Emus.H.B. Tristram:— a. South Africa (Layard). b Cane 

 colony ■(Andersson). c. Natal (Ayres). d, ? ? Objimbioque, Da- 

 mara Land, March 13th, 1865 (C. J. Andersson). 



11. Melanocorypha. t 



Melanocorypha, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322 M. calandra. 



Calandra Less. Compl. Buff. ii. p. 120 (1837) . . M. calandra. 



Londra, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 1 14 M. calandra. 



Corydon, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 264 (1842, 



nee Less. 1828) M ca i andra 



Calandrina, Blytb, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 265 (1855) M. torquata. 



The thickset conical bill is one of the chief characters of the 

 genus. Wings moderately pointed. 



12. Pallasia. Type. 



Pallasia, E. von Homeyer, J. f. O. 1873, p. 190. . P. mongolica. 



Remarkable for its short secondaries, which must make it con- 

 spicuously different in flight from other Larks. 



13. Lullula. Type. 



Lullula, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 92 (1829) L. arborea. 



Corys, Reich L arborea. 



Not far removed from Alauda, but differing in the curved hind 

 claw, and long first primary. 



14. GALERITA. rpvpe 



Galerida, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 321 Q, cristata 



Heterops, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) G. cristata'. 

 Often united by naturalists to Lullula and vice versd. The two 



genera, however, appear to me well characterized, the wing-formula 



and shape of crest being quite different. 



15. PyrrhCLUJDA. Type. 



Pyrrhulauda, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 381 (1844)* . . P. australis. 

 Megalotis, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 347 (1827) (nee 



IU 'Jt "Y-"'W\'\ P - leucotis. 



Loraphites, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. xiii. p. 328 (1847) P. australis. 



* Said by Gray to have been established by Sir A. Smith in 1829. Smith 

 also states the same ; but I cannot find where he proposed the genus. 



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