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a, b. <? $ . Jifadensa, Abyssinia, 22 January, 1899. 
(Nos. 253, 254.) 
c. $ juv. Balti, Abyssinia, 23 January, 1899. 
(No. 267.) 
a, b. Iris brown ; bill and legs dark. 
c. Iris brown ; bill dark; legs light. 
Specimen c, a young male, is in interesting plumage, and 
differs from the adult chiefly in having the top of the head 
and the greater part of the back and wing-coverts very dark 
brown, with a small white spot at the extremity of most of the 
feathers; and the chest, breast, and sides buff, with a 
subterminal bar or spot of blackish brown. 
[This Lark has the power of raising its crest. It is common 
at all altitudes of Shoan Abyssinia.—L.] 
61. ALAUDA PK.ETERMISSA. 
Alauda prcetermissa Blanf.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiii. p. 579 (1890). 
a. (J. Jif'adensa, Abyssinia, 22 January, 1899. 
(No. 256.) 
Iris brown; bill dark ; legs light. 
[Very common on the highlands. It appeared to feed in 
small flocks.—L.] 
62. Mirafra gilletti. 
Mirafra gilletti Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 472; Lort 
Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 401 [N. Somaliland] ; Hawker, Ibis, 
1899, p. 64. 
a. Hawash, Abyssinia, 16 January, 1899. (No. 206.) 
Iris brown; bill dark ; legs light. 
63. Spilocorydon hypermetrus. 
Spilocorydon hypermetrus Reichenow; Sharpe, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 620 (1890). 
a. $. Kassim river, Abyssinia, 18 January, 1899. 
(No. 223.) 
b. S. Gadaburka, Abyssinia, 21 January, 1899. 
(No 249.) 
a. Iris brown; culmen dark, mandible whitish ; legs light 
horn-colour. Wing 4*6 inches, tail 3*4. 
