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country around Petersburg. It was not again seen till 
Tete was reached, where numbers were observed in August 
on the sandy rock-strewn country bordering the Zambesi 
River near that town. In actions, call, and habits this Lark 
resembles the other members of the group. 
The soft parts are :—Irides bright hazel; bill pearly or 
bluish white ; legs and toes purplish.] 
112. Calendula crassirostris. 
CCo Durban Road, Mch. (3); Klipfontein, Apl., May, 
June, July (10) ; Port Nolloth, Aug. (3). 
Mr. Grant thought that he could distinguish a Cape race 
from that of Namaqualand and even of Deelfontein, but the 
Cape examples from Durban Road were all taken in March, 
and had hardly finished their moult, so that the wings and 
tails appear unusually short. 
My measurements seem to shew that the culmen of both 
the Namaqualand and Cape birds averages larger than in 
those from Deelfontein, but hardly sufficiently so for distin¬ 
guishing two races. 
[This Lark was found at the Cape Peninsula and in 
Namaqualand. It frequents singly or in pairs more or less 
open sandy localities or cultivated lands, and spends most 
of its time on the ground in search of grain and various 
seeds. 
The soft parts are:—Irides hazel; bill, upper mandible 
and tip of lower dark blackish horn-coloured, base of lower 
whitish horn-coloured ; legs and toes pale slate-coloured.] 
IIeteronyx ruddi. (Text-figure 9.) 
C. Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxi. p. Ill (July 11, 
1908). 
Tv. Wakkerstroom, Peb. (1). 
A single example of this curious Lark was obtained in the 
South-Eastern Transvaal, and was described as the type 
of a new genus by Grant. 
It resembles Mirafra in every respect—in the form of the 
beak, the exposed nostrils, the shape of the wing, and the 
ength of the outer primary, but can be at once recognised 
