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In one specimen the blotches of yello-wish-brown are very large. 

 They measure respectively 1-04 by -72 and 1-1 by -TS. 



1. Algeria {Loche). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. El Aghouat, Algeria, April (Loche : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.)^ 



2. South of El Aghouat, April {Dr. Salvin-Godman Coll. & 



Rebond: Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Alaemon pallida (Blyth). 

 (Plate VI. fig. 13.) 



Alsemon desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 519 (1890) 

 [part.] ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 318 (1890) ; id., 

 ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. :219 (1890). 



Alsemon pallida, Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. 155 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Eastern Desert-Lark are of the same shape as 

 those of A. alauAipes, but have an appreciable amount of gloss. 

 One specimen is very pale greenish-white, spotted and blotched 

 with pale olive-brown and dark purplish-grey. The other is also 

 greenish-white, but is thickly mottled with olive-brown, not 

 blotched as in the ftrsit specimen, and the underlying purplish-grey 

 markings are few and inconspicuous. They measure respectively : 

 1-02 by -74 ; -SS by -71. 



2. Jask. Persian Gulf, 15th April Hume Coll. 



(FJmoh). 



Alaemon damareusis, Sharpe. 

 (Plate VI. fig. 14.) 



Alaemon damarenais, Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 361 ; id., Hand-l. v. p. 155 

 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Damaraland Desert-Lark are of a rather broad 

 and slightly-pointed oval shape and almost devoid of gloss. They 

 are dull white, with fine spots and small blotches of yellowish- 

 brown and lavender-grey scattered all over the shell, but most 

 numerous towards the larger end. They measure respectively 

 •97 by -7 and -92 by -71. 



2. Otjimbinque, Damaraland (C J. Crowley Bequest. 

 Andersson: Tristram Coll.). 



Genus CHERSOPHILUS, Sharpe. 



ChersopMlus duponti ( Vieill.). 



(Plate VI. fig. 15.) 



Certhilauda duponti, Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 437 ; Loche, Expl. Sci. 

 Atg4r., Ois. ii. p. 42 (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Bur. iv. p. 279 (1873) ; 

 id., Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 376 (1902). 



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