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Show 1874.] LARKS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 629 the wing quite agree, as will be seen by comparing the wing of A. erythrochlamys with that, of that species. The first primary in A. ferruginea is much bigger, and the distance between its tips and the tip of the second primary is P5 inch, whereas in A. erythrochlamys it measures 1*35-4 inches ; but even this varies a good deal, and the best difference between the two species lies in the larger size and greyish flanks of A. ferruginea. The series now before me measure as follows:- a, 2 ad-, Transvaal (Ayres) .. b, 2 ad-, Damara (Wahlberg) c, 3 juv. „ (Andersson) a, 3 au. ,, ,, e, 3 ad. ,, ,, Total length. in. 6*8 6*5 6-5 6-8 6-5 cidm. in. 0*7 0-65 0-7 0-75 0*75 wing. in. 3*5 3*4 33 3*55 3*6 tail. in. 2*8 2-8 2-7 2-9 2-8 Compare with the above the dimensions of A. ferruginea. Total length. in. culm. in. wing. in. tail. in. tarsus. in. 1-05 1-05 105 1*15 1*05 tarsus in. a, ad. South Africa (Sir A. Smith) 7*5 0*7 4*1 3*3 1*25 Specimens examined, E mus. Brit. :-a, b, ad. Walvisch Bay, Damara Land (C. J. Andersson). E mus. R.B.S.:-a, 3 juv. Walvisch Bay, Damara Land, May 26th, 1864 (C.J. Andersson). b, ad. Damara Land (C. J. A.), c, ? ad. Damara Land, Nov. 20th, 1854 (Wahlberg). E mus. J. H. Gurney:-a, $ ad. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, June 20th, 1872 (T. Ayres). E mus. H. B. Tristram :-a, 2 • Walvisch Bay, Jan. 27th, 1864 (C. J. Andersson). 9. AMMOMANES GRAYI. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 2.) Alauda Grayi, Wahlb. CEfv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1855, p. 213; id. J. f, O. 1857, p. 2; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 118 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 71 (1871); Gurney in Andersson, B. B. Dam. Ld. p. 193 (1872). Alauda navia, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. App. p. 400 (1868). Adult male. Above light sandy isabelline, not paler on the head, but slightly fulvescent on the hind neck ; forehead, lores, and a tolerably defined eyebrow whitish ; feathers in front of the eye dusky blackish; sides of face whitish, the hinder ear-coverts washed with isabelline; entire under surface of body whitish, slightly washed with isabelline on the breast, on each side of which is an indistinct blackish patch ; under wing-coverts white, with a very faint isabelline tinge; upper wing-coverts sandy isabelline like the back, with light whitish margins, mottled also by means of the grey bases to the feathers showing; quills greyish, slightly tipped with |
