112 ALAUDIDJi;. 



Certhilauda albofasciata, Lafr. 

 (Plate VI. figs. 10 & 12.) 



Certhilauda rufula, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Afr. p. 496 (1875-84) ; 



Butler, Feilden 8f Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 297 ; SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xiii. p. 51.5 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 132 (1899) ; Stark, 



Faun. 8. Afr., Birds, i. p. 234 (1900). 

 Certhilauda albofasciata, Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 22 (1902) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 



Eggs of the Rufous Long-billed Lark are of a pointed or blunt 

 oval shape and moderately glossy. They are usually dull white or 

 greenish-white, more or less densely speckled all over with 

 yellowish-brown and purplish-grey. One egg is dull white, 

 blotched with lavender and brownish-yellow. Two eggs taken at 

 Maribogo are creamy-white, densely spotted with yellowish-brown, 

 the spots forming a wide yellowish-brown zone round the larger 

 end. They measure from "74 to "84 in length, and from -55 to •& 

 in breadth. 



3. Newcastle, Natal. Capt. Savile G. Eeid [C.]. 



2. Newcastle, 16th Oct. Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 



3. Ingag^agne liiver, near Newcastle, Crowley Bequest. 



27th Sept. (E. A. Butler). 



2. Maribogo, 50 miles N. of Vryburg, R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [0.]. 



O.R.C., 3rd April. 



2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 3rd Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.l. 



2. Bloemfontein, O.R.C., 27th Sept. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [0.]. 



2. Kroonstad, O.R.C., 18th Nov. Major R. Sparrow [P.l. 



2. Rietfontein, O.R.O., 11th Aug. Major R. Sparrow [P.]. 



1. Potchefstroom, Transvaal (T.^yces; Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Genus ALMKO^, Keys. 6f Blasius. 



Alasmon alaudipes (Besf.). 



(Plate VI. flgs. 9 &11.) 



Alauda desertorum, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Voff. tab. xxvi. fig. 12, a, b 



(1845-54). 

 "Certhilauda desertorum, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 427; Zoehe, Fxpl. Sot. 



Alg4r., Ois. ii. p. 43 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Fur. iv. p. 275 (1874). 

 Alauda bifasciata, Bree, Birds Fkr. 2nd ed. iii. p. 105, pi. (1875). 

 Certhilauda alaudipes. Dresser, torn. cit. p. 273 (1881) ; Shelley, Birds 



Afr. iii. p. 19 (1902); Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 376 



(1902). 

 Alsemon alaudipes, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 618 (1890) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Fiersamml. p. 132 (1899) ; Whitaker, Birds Tunis, i. p. 241 



(1905) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 154 (1906). 



Pour eggs of the Western Desert-Lark, or Bifasciated Lark, are 

 of an ordinary oval form and entirely devoid of gloss. They are 

 greyish-white, spotted and blotched, more densely at the broad end 

 than elsewhere, with pale olive-brown and pale purplish-grey. 



