641 



18 '4.] LARKS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 



probable therefore that M. apiata resembles 31. rufipilea in its 

 young stage, though differing much in the adult. 



Specimens examined. 



E mm. Brit --a, b, ad. South Africa (Sir A. Smith), c. Cape- 

 town (U. J. Andersson). r 



E mm. G. E. Shelley :—a, <j i mm . Stellendorf, Cape colony 

 January 22, 1874 (G. E. S.). V t-oiony, 



E mm H. B Tristram :-a. Cape of Good Hope, b, c. South 

 Africa {Layard). d. Kuruman (Layard). 



14. MlRAFRA RUFIPILEA. 



UAlouette a calotte rousse, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr iv. pi 198 (\SQ5\ ■ 

 Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 46 (1857). 



Alauda rufipilea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 345 (1816V 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 72 (1871). 



Megalophonus rufipileus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 (1844)- Bo 

 Consp . i. p .243 (1850); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 211 (1867); Gray! 

 Hand-1 B. n. p. 122 (1870); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 268. 7 



Brachcmyx pyrrhonota, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. ex. 

 fig. 2 (1849, nee Vieill.). h 



4l a "tef a »™lata, Sundey. (Efv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 

 looO, p. 99 (18o0). 



Megalophonus fasciolatus, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854) • Grav 

 Haud-1. ii. p. 122 (1870). v ' ' *' 



Megalophonus apiatus, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 295. 



Adult male. Above entirely cinnamon rnfous, the feathers of the 

 crown faintly tipped with whitish, these being much broader and 

 more distinct on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, these light 

 tips reheved by a subterminal line of black, most of the feathers 

 being blackish at base and having one or two other concealed bars of 

 blackish; hind neck and ! interscapular region brighter cinnamon, 

 with centra streaks of deeper cinnamon; wing-coverts cinnamon 

 like the back, but the margins to the feathers broader and the black 

 subterminal margins more pronounced ; quills rufous for two thirds 

 of their length, brown for the terminal third, the secondaries 

 browner, the inner web almost entirely brown, the outer one mottled 

 with the same externally, the innermost deep cinnamon, like the 

 back, with the same distinct margins ; tail brown, slightly tipped 

 with rufous, the two outer feathers externally margined with creamy 

 buff, the outermost more broadly, the two centre tail-feathers 

 cmnamon, dark brown in the centre, from which radiate several 

 imperfectly formed bars and mottlings of blackish ; lores and a fairly 

 distinct eyebrow buffy white; ear-coverts rufous, deeper on the 

 hinder margin; cheeks and sides of neck buffy white, minutely 

 speckled with dark brown; throat buffy white, unspotted ; rest of 

 under surface pale fawn-colour, rather obscured in some places by 

 fulvous margins to the feathers, the fore neck and chest numerously 

 marked with little round spots of black; under wing-coverts deeo 

 cinnamon, like the inner lining of the wing ; « bill pale, with the tip 



