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Show 1874.] LARKS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 641 probable therefore that M. apiata resembles M. rufipilea in its young stage, though differing much in the adult. Specimens examined. E mus. Brit.:-a, b, ad. South Africa (Sir A. Smith), c. Capetown (C. J. Andersson). E mus. G. E. Shelley :-a, 3 imm. Stellendorf, Cape colony, January 22, 1874 (G. E. S.). , E mus. H. B. Tristram:-a. Cape of Good Hope, b, c. South Africa (Layard). d. Kuruman (Layard). 14. MIRAFRA RUFIPILEA. VAlouette a calotte rousse, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 198 (1805) ; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 46 (1857). Alauda rufipilea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 345 (1816); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 72 (1871). Megalophonus rufipileus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 382 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 243 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 211 (1867); Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 122 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 268. Brachonyx pyrrhonota, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. ex. fig. 2 (1849, nee Fieill.). Alauda fasciolata, Sundev. G3fv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 99 (1850). Megalophonus fasciolatus, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854) ; Gray, Hand-1. ii. p. 122 (1870). Megalophonus apiatus, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 295. Adult male. Above entirely cinnamon rufous, the feathers of the crown faintly tipped with whitish, these being much broader and more distinct on the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, these light tips relieved by a subterminal line of black, most of the feathers being blackish at base and having one or two other concealed bars of blackish; hind neck and interscapulary region brighter cinnamon, with central streaks of deeper cinnamon; wing-coverts cinnamon like the back, but the margins to the feathers broader and the black subterminal margins more pronounced ; quills rufous for two thirds of their length, brown for the terminal third, the secondaries browner, the inner web almost entirely brown, the outer one mottled with the same externally, the innermost deep cinnamon, like the back, with the same distinct margins; tail brown, slightly tipped with rufous, the two outer feathers externally margined with creamy buff, the outermost more broadly, the two centre tail-feathers cinnamon, dark brown in the centre, from which radiate several imperfectly formed bars and mottlings of blackish ; lores and a fairly distinct eyebrow buffy white; ear-coverts rufous, deeper on the hinder margin; cheeks and sides of neck buffy white, minutely speckled with dark brown ; throat buffy white, unspotted ; rest of under surface pale fawn-colour, rather obscured in some places by fulvous margins to the feathers, the fore neck and chest numerously marked with little round spots of black; under wing-coverts deep cinnamon, like the inner lining of the wing ; " bill pale, with the tip |
