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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 471 ally, and the white belly is also a conspicuous feature, while the collar of black spots on the fore-neck of the female is quite remarkable. The male has a greyish band across the lower throat. 36. EMBERIZA POLIOPLEURA. Fringillaria poliopleura, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. p. 269(1888). a. d • Sibbe, Aug. 4, 1894. Mr. Gillett obtained a male on the Shebeli. b. o*. Ehrer, Aug. 16, 1894. c. Juv. Sheik Husein, Oct. 1, 1894. Iris dark brown; feet light brown. This species was discovered by Dr. Ragazzi at Sodde in Shoa, where it was pronounced by him to be rare. Count Salvadori (I. c.) has given some excellent notes on the Buntings of this group, and considers Emberiza affinis (Heugl.) to be a distinct species. Fam. ALAUDiDiE. 37. TEPHROCORYS RUFICEPS. Calandritis anderssoni (nee Tristr.), Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 699 (1871). Tephrocorys ruficeps (Riipp.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 563 (1890). Calandritis ruficeps, Heugl. t. c. p. 698 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 170 (1884). Calandrella ruficeps, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 268. a, b. d ad. Sheik Mahomed, Nov. 13, 1894. Iris and legs brown. Heuglin says that this species represents our Skylark in the high mountains of Abyssinia, where it is found between 6000 and 11,000 feet. He found it to the north in Hamasien, southwards to the Woho-Gala Mountains, and not to the westward beyond the Tana Lake. In Shoa, Antinori found it in June and November, and Dr. Ragazzi at Falle, in the Mulo Galla country, in December and January. 38. SPIZOCORYS PERSONATA, n. sp. a. d ad. Sassabana, Aug. 3, 1894. As this specimen is moulting, it is extremely difficult to determine the exact genus it should be placed in; but it has a very-diminutive first primary, and I think that it will prove to be a second species of Spizocorys. From S. curvirostris it is easily distinguished by its vinous breast and abdomen, grey ear-coverts, sides of neck and fore-neck, forming a band across the latter and separating the white throat from the vinous breast. It is also remarkable for the black lores and region of the eyes, the black descending obliquely across the throat and joining a black streak along the anterior malar region. |
