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epigastrio immaculatis, abdomine nonnihil albido-variegato ; sub- 

 alaribus et subcaudalibus intense rufis; pedibus fuscis; rostro 

 nigricante. 



Jun.: Pectore et abdomine maculis majoribus rotundatis 

 vel subovatis albis irregulariter variis; subcaudalibus albis; rufo- 

 variegatis; interscapulio plus minus nigro-maculato. 



Long. tot. 116, rostr. a fr. 9, ala 63, caud. 40, tars, 13 Mm. 



Hab.: Ladö, Central- Afrika. 



FAM. ALAUDIDAE. 



Alauda ParJceri. 



W. V. Legge, Hist. Birds Ceylon Pt. III, September 1880, 

 App. p. 1217. 



The feathers of the head and interscapular region are black, 

 the margins rieh rufous on the head, rufous-grey on the back; 

 ^Ying-coverts and tertials broadly margined with rufous; the 

 primaries edged with rufescent white; the nestling tail-feathers 

 are very pointed; the lateral newly-acquired ones rufescent white, 

 with dark inner edges; lores and a broad supercilium rufescent 

 white; the new feathers of the throat and ehest pale rufous, as 

 also those of the thighs; the nestling-feathors of the under sur- 

 face whitish ; across the ehest the feathers are striped with dark 

 brown. Length 5,75 — 6,0 inches, wing 3,1—3,05, tail 1,8 bis 

 1,85, middle toe 0,55, bind toe 0,45. Iris fulvous brown; upper 

 mandible blackish, with a pale edge, lower mandible fleshy; 

 legs and feet olive-brown. Hab.: Ceylon. 



Calandrella tihetana. 



W. E. Brooks, Stray Feathers vol. VIII, No. 6, Dec. 1879, 

 p. 488. 



Upper surface, a light cold brownish grey, streaked with 

 dark greyish brown; lower surface dull white, and grey across 

 the breast. There are sonietimes a few small indistinct streaks 

 or spots. The bill is rather longer and more pointed than in 

 hrachydartyla and not so stout at the base. The tone of the 

 Upper plumage of this bird inclines to bluish grey, and is quite 

 difterent from the sandy-toned upper surface of hrachydactyla. 

 I have autumnal and summer examples of each, so the conspi- 

 cuous difference is not due to season. Wings 3,55, tail 2,55, 

 tars. 0,75, bill at front 0,47 in all. 



Hab.: Thibet, beyond Sikhim. 



(Nach einer Randbemerkung Hunie's ist 6'. tihetana = C. 

 acutirostrls Hume Labore to Yarkand). 



Mirafra angolensis. 



Barboza du Bocage, Journ. Sc. Math. Pliys. Nat. Lisboa 

 No. XXIX, 1880, p. 59. 



Ce qui frappe d'abord l'attention chez nos deux individus 

 de cet espece c'est le teinte d'un roux-briquete en dessus. Leur 



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