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The specimen @ has the back pale fulvous, whereas the other specimens have a 
greyish-isabel tinge on the back, and are in general brighter in colour. All these spe- 
cimens, shot in the month of August, are in moult, and show more or less obsolete dark 
spots on the throat. 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
3! Bl_gi gir gi pian ai 5a!" _@ul! QI" 
A nearly allied species is A. cinctura, Gould (=pallida, Ehrb.), distinguished by 
the brighter cinnamon-colour of the upper parts and the black apical spot of the 
tail-feathers. A specimen from the Cape Verde Islands (Dohrn) agrees with an 
Algerian one, but is brighter above, and has the jugulum tinged strongly with fulvous, 
whereas in the Algerian specimen those parts show only a faint fulvous tinge.—0O. F. 
[Legs and feet rufous grey. 
One specimen obtained at Koomaylee on June 3rd, 1868; not plentiful there, more 
so at Amba in August.—W. J.] 
141. ALZMON JESSEI, sp. nov. 
Certhilauda desertorum, Heugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 348. 
Alemon desertorum, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 183; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 231 (spec. 
ex Arabia) ; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 465. no. 248, et p. 869. 
a. d. Zoulla. June 9. 
b. 3. Zoulla. June 9. 
ce. dé. Zoulla. June 9. 
dad. 2. Zoulla. June 9. 
Supra pallide griseo-brunnescens, plumis medio distinctius fuscis; regione parotica 
striolaque mystacali brevi, lata, fuscis; gula, loris, superciliis et capitis lateribus infra 
oculos albis; pectore in fundo albo maculis rotundatis fuscis confertim guttato; abdo- 
mine albo; remigibus majoribus fuscis, basibus pogonii interni albis, minoribus fuscis 
basi et apice late albis; scapularibus dorso concoloribus; tectricibus alarum pallide 
fuscis, pallidius marginatis; subalaribus albis; rectricibus duabus intermediis pallide 
fuscis, sequentibus fusco-nigricantibus, extima pogonio externo alba; rostro pallide 
brunnescente, tomiis et basi albidis; pedibus dilute griseis. 
The surface of the head and all the upper parts pale greyish brown, each feather 
somewhat darker brown in the centre; the feathers on the head with more distinct 
dark-brown shaft-stripes; lores and a conspicuous superciliary stripe white, like the 
sides of the head, chin, and upper throat; on the ears a blackish spot, extending to 
the tempora; from the angle of the mouth descends a broad blackish moustache- 
stripe; before the eye a small blackish spot; the under parts white, washed strongly 
with pale brown on the sides; the feathers on the throat marked with small blackish- 
brown spots, those of the jugulum and breast with large cordiform spots of the same 
