by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 255 
mandibles pale yellowish horn-coloured ; legs and toes fleshy 
brown.] 
Mirafra rufocinnamomea. 
Shelley, Bds. Afr. iii. 1902, p. 45. 
Tv. Klein Letaba, Sept. (1). 
A Lark taken in the North-East Transvaal seems un¬ 
doubtedly referable to this species, which is new to South 
Africa. It has hitherto been known from Ugogo in German 
East Africa, and north to Abyssinia, whence came the type 
described by Salvadori. There is only one example in the 
British Museum—the type of M. torrida Shelley, obtained 
by Sir John Kirk in Ugogo. The Transvaal example matches 
it very well. 
[One specimen of this species was taken in the low country 
of the North-Eastern Transvaal, where it was distinctly 
uncommon. It was shot running on the ground in an open 
grassy flat. 
The soft parts are :—Irides hazel ; bill very dark horn- 
coloured, lower mandible slaty ; legs and toes slaty.] 
Mirafra zombie. 
Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. 1902, p. 27 ; Claude 
Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 1908, p. 111. 
F. Masambeti, Nov. (1). 
This species, new to South Africa, and before noted from 
the low country in Nyasaland—Zomba, Lake Shirwa, and 
Milanji slopes, had been previously confused with M. fischeri, 
from which it differs in having the upper parts dusky, 
streaked with darker and without transverse pattern. 
[A single specimen, the only one seen of this Nyasaland 
species, was shot on an open grassy flat, bordering some 
cultivated land, where the Masambeti stream disappears 
into the veld. 
The soft parts are:—Irides hazel; bill dark horn-coloured, 
lower mandible yellowish ; legs and toes livid.] 
123. Mirafra apiata. 
CC. Plettenberg Bay, Feb., Mch. (4) ; Klipfontein, 
July (1). 
[“ Monad-vogel ” of Colonists. 
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