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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
by the long hind toe and claw, measuring in the single example 
12 -f 19 = 31 mm. in all. In M. cheniana , a bird of about 
the same size, the hind toe and claw measure 7 + 7= 14 mm. 
The following is a farther description of this interesting 
bird :—Above dusky, most of the feathers edged with pale 
tawny; a narrow band of pale tawny down the centre of the 
crown, and a good deal of rufous tawny across the neck ; 
primaries edged with pale rufous, and with a paler rufous 
edging along the webs on the lower surface; tail just moulted, 
but apparently with the light pattern of the outer feather 
Text-fig. 9. 
Foot of Heteronyx ruddi, to shew the long hind toe and claw. 
white; below tawny whitish, quite white on the throat, and 
with dusky streaks on the breast; lores and ear-coverts as 
beneath ; under wing-coverts very pale tawny, almost white. 
Hind claw quite straight for the first three-quarters of its 
length, beyond which it is slightly downcurved. 
[Rudd's Long-clawed Lark was found in the open grass- 
country around Wakkerstroom ; the specimen sent, the only 
one observed, was shot running on the ground. 
Irides deep brown ; bill, upper mandible pale horn-brown, 
lower yellow-horn-coloured; legs and toes fleshy.] 
119. Mirafra africana. 
Z. Umfolosi Station, July, Aug., Sept. (5); F. Coguno, 
Sept. (3). 
[This remarkable Lark was only found in the low country 
of Zululand and again in the Inhambane district of the 
ser. ix. —VOL. v. 
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