Birds of the Gold Coast Colony Sfc. 29S 
danger had disappeared. lu flight the rufous underneath 
the wings is conspicuous. 
The adult male of this Lark diff'ers from the female in 
being more rufous on the wings and tail. The primaries are 
broadly edged with rufous on their outer webs, while the 
outer tail-feather is entirely rufous. 
The female equals the male in measurements. 
The range of this Lark is across Africa from the Gold 
Coast Hinterland on the west to the White Nile on the east. 
26. Pyrrhulauda melanocephala (Licht.). 
Alauda melanocephala, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 28 (1823), 
Fringilla ptoleucus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 269. figs. 2, 3 
(1824). 
Pyrrhulauda otoleuca Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 14. 
We first observed this species on Dec. 23, 1900, near Wal- 
wali (lat. 10° 30' N., long. 1° W.). At Binduri, about 40 
miles to the north of Gambaga, the bird was again met with 
on Feb. 20, 1901. There the country is very open, and 
is in places grown over with guinea-corn and long grass 
interspersed with short stunted trees. A small dried-up 
watercourse, with banks of loose stony soil covered by dry 
grass, was the resort of this species. The birds were in flocks, 
which consisted of males only, the majority of them being 
immature. 
They were very shy, continually getting up out of gun- 
shot, and with an erratic and dancing little flight disappear- 
ing in ever-increasing circles out of sight. The note is a 
tiny " twit-twit " rapidly repeated. 
The two adult males which we obtained had their organs 
in breeding condition. The immature birds in the flock 
must have belonged to the first broods. 
The stomachs of those obtained contained small grass- 
seeds. 
The Black-headed Bunting-Lark ranges from Senegambia 
to the Niger on the west and thence across Africa to the 
White Nile, where it meets and overlaps the range of its near 
ally P. leucotis. It differs principally from the latter in having 
