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examined I found seeds, the remains of termites, and small coleoptera. Its song is weak, and 

 resembles rather the warbling of the Whitethroat than the notes of a true Lark. Like the true 

 Larks it rises to some elevation in the air, though rarely above about thirty to forty feet. Its 

 native name is Pastor. On any of the other islands I never met with it." 



Canon Tristram (Ibis, 1859, p. 423) describes its flight as jerking and short, and says that 

 he never noticed it poise itself on the wing. Its notes, he says, " are very varied and melodious, 

 but not powerful. The egg is peculiar, similar in shape to that of Calandrella brachydactyla, 

 measuring 9 lines by 7, the ground-colour dingy white, and covered over its whole surface by very 

 minute brown spots, but never blotched." 



I possess one egg of this species, collected in Algeria by the late Major Loche, which in 

 general character and colour resembles those of Ammomanes deserti ; but the markings are rather 

 darker, and more clearly defined, and it is smaller in size. 



The specimen figured and described is the one above referred to as having been obtained at 

 Malta. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mm. H. E. Dresser. 



a, 2 • Malta Market, April 1867 (C. A. Wright), b, <S . Algeria (Fair?naire) . 



E Miis. H. B. Tristram. 



a, 6. Laghouat, Algeria, November 26th, 1856. b, ?. Guerrera, December 13th, 1856. c. Algeria, Decem- 

 ber 20th, 1856. d, <S . Desert, near Hadjira, Algeria, December 23rd, 1856. e. Desert of Souf, January 

 1857 (all H. B. Tristram). 



E Mus. Salvin and Godman. 

 a, ?. Laghouat, Algeria, November 26th, 1856 (H. B. Tristram). 



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