200 BIRDS OF DAMABA LAND. 



[The type specimen of Messrs. Strickland and Sclater's 

 Alauda ncevia, which I have examined at the Museum of Zoology 

 at Cambridge, appears to me to be identical with specimens 

 contained in Mr. Andersson's last collection, from two of which, 

 now in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe, Mr. Andersson's 

 measurements, above quoted, were taken. 



As this Lark has not been figured, it may be desirable to add 

 the following copy of the description given of it by Messrs. 

 Strickland and Sclater {loc. cit.) : — " Crown greyish brown ; back 

 of neck paler ; back and wing-covers fulvous ; the feathers of 

 all these parts with a broad, distinct longitudinal fuscous streak 

 on each ; remiges fuscous, margined externally and internally 

 towards the base with pale fulvous ; upper tail-covers rufo- 

 fulvous ; rectrices deep fascous ; the middle and external pairs 

 broadly, the rest narrowly, margined with fulvous ; a whitish 

 streak above and below the eye ; cheeks and ear-covers light 

 brown ; chin whitish ; breast pale cream-colour, with a small 

 longitudinal fuscous streak en each feather ; belly and vent 

 pale cream-colour ; beak corneous, paler towards the base ; 

 margin nearly straight, gonys cm'ved upwards, and culmen 

 equally so downwards; feet and claws flesh-coloured, tinged 

 with light brown ; hind claw short, slightly curved. 



" Total length 6" ; beak to front 6'", to gape 7"', high 2i"', 

 broad 2|'''j wing 3" -l'", all the rectrices 2" 3"'; tarsus 9'", hind 

 claw 3'". '—Ed.] 



244. Megalophonus lagepa (Smith). Lagepa Lark. 



Alauda lagepa, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 87. fig. 2. 

 Megalophonus lagepa, Layard's Cat. No. 4.32. 



I observed this species pretty frequently in Little 

 Namaqua Land, but not to the north of the Orange 

 Eiver ; it perches on bushes as well as on the ground. 



[This species, during Mr. Andersson's residence at the Cape, 

 was labelled in the Cape Museum as Megalophonus guttatus, on 

 which account Mr. Andersson alludes to it in his MS. under 



