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Captain Lynes, who returned last June from Darf'ur, our 

 recently acquired Province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 

 said that as he shortly intended leaving England to continue 

 work there, he would now only invite attention to several of 

 its new forms of birds, in the hope of being able to give a 

 good account of the Ornithology of Darfur after his coming 

 expedition. 



The majority of his present collections came from Jebel 

 Marra and the country lying to the eastward of those 

 mountains, which contains El Fasher, the capital of the 

 Province. 



Captain Lynes drew attention to the isolated geographical 



position of the higher altitudes of Jebel Marra, an important 



massif occupying some 800 square miles of the centre of 



Darfur, much of which area lay from about 7000 to 10,000 



feet above sea-level. He described the following birds 



as new : — 



Mirafra rufa, sp. no v. 



" Cinnamon Bush-Lark." 



In general appearance this new Bush-Lark might be 

 considered an ally of M. gilletti Sharpe or of M. africanoides 

 Jiarei E,oberts, Ann. Transvaal Mus. v. 1917, but it differs 

 essentially from both. 



Type. In the British Museum. An adult male from 

 Central Darfur, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, collected bth May, 

 1920, by Captain Lynes. Altitude 3000 feet. 



Description of type. Above, including upper tail-coverts, 

 pale cinnamon-brown, more or less lightly streaked with 

 narrow dark brown shaft-stripes — heaviest on head and 

 nearly absent on lower back and rump. Below, including 

 lower tail-coverts and flanks, light ochraceous-buff, palest 

 (nearly white) on chin and throat, deepest on crop and 

 flanks. Crop and lower throat lightly and softly spotted 

 with ochraceous-tawny feather-centres. 



Wing. Primaries and secondaries clove-brown, narrowly 

 margined on both webs with pale cinnamon-brown ; inner- 

 most two or three secondaries heavily marked above with 

 pale cinnamon-brown, thus harmonizing the dominant 

 colour of the folded wing with that of the back. 



