FRINGILLIDiE. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Size of the Skylark : 

 beak brownish : eyes reddish-chesnut : feathers of the 

 head elongated : plumage varied with chesnut, brown, 

 and black, divided by festoons of white in narrow 

 bands; the ends of the feathers of the back and 

 wings being white : throat white : breast marbled 

 with fulvous, on a white ground : under parts of the 

 body orange-white : legs yellow-brown. The female 

 is smaller, the colours less regularly marked : the 

 young are tinged wtth rufous above, and rufous- 

 orange beneath. 



Sp. 14. Al. erythronotos. 



Al. dprso injimo pallide riifo ; corpore subtus albido; pectore 

 Jusco maculato ; superciliis pallidis; alls cauddque Jliscis; pen- 

 nnrum marginibus pallidioribus. 



Lark with the lower part of the back pale rufous ; the body be- 

 neath whitish ; the breast spotted with brown j the eyebrows 

 pale ; the wings and tail brown j with the edges of the fea- 

 thers paler. 



L'Alouette a dos roux. Le VailL Ois. d'Afriq. iv. pi. 197. — 

 Red-backed Lark. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. v\. p 286. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Size of the Skylark, 

 and a little resembling it on the back, the lower part 

 of which is pale rufous : under parts of the body 

 dirty white, marked on the breast with brown spots : 

 over the eyes a pale streak : quills and tail brown, 

 with paler edges ; outer margins of the exterior tail- 

 feathers white : beak and legs brown. The female 

 is rather less : the young want the rufous tinge on 

 the lower part of the back. 



15. Al. ruficapiila. 



