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Show 630 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE [NOV. 17, white and margined with sandy colour on the outer web, the primaries very narrowly bordered, but the secondaries very broadly, the innermost being entirely rufous sand-colour, with broad longitudinal greyish centres, the inner lining of the wing greyish, inclining to white near the base of the inner web ; tail dark brown tipped with white on the inner web, the centre feathers grey, with sandy-coloured margins and tips, the basal third of the tail-feathers isabelline inclining to whitish, and extending further up the outer web of the external feathers. Total length 4#8 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3*25, tail 1*8, tarsus 0*85. Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller in the wing. Total length 4*8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3*05, tail 1*8, tarsus 0*85 Hab. Damara Land. Specimens examined. E mus. Brit.:-a. Damara Land (C. J. Andersson). E mus. R. B. S. :-a, b, 3 2 • Oosop, Damara Land, Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, 1866 (C. J. Andersson). c. Sand Fountain, Walvisch Bay, April 19, 1865 (C. J. A.). E mus. H. B. Tristram :-a, 3 • Oosop, Damara Land, Nov. 30, 1866 (C.J. A.). Genus 5. ALAUDULA. Alaudula, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. Type. p. 471 (1856, ex Blyth MS.) A. raytal. Confined to the Indian peninsula, and not represented in Africa. Genus 6. RHAMPHOCORYS. Type. Rhamphocorys, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 423 (1850) .... R. clot-bey. Ieraplerhina, Desmurs et Lucas, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 24 R. clot-bey. Appears to be rather an exaggerated Ammomanes, and not to have any great affinity with Melanocorypha. Genus 7. ALAUDA. Type. Alauda, Linn. S. N. i. p. 287 (1766) A. arvensis. Genus 8. CALANDRELLA. Type. Calandrella, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 39 (1829) C. brachydactyla. Coryphidea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 960 (1844) C. brachydactyla. Calandritis, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 122 (1850) C. brachydactyla*. Differs from Alauda chiefly in its thicker bill, otherwise very closely allied. Distinguished by larger and more sharply pointed wings. * I presume, from the general references of ornithologists, that the type of Calandritis is the Short-toed Lark, as Cabanis proposed to supersede with this term the unclassical titles of Kaup and Blyth; but were the first species mentioned of each genus to be regarded as the type, then A. cinerea would be the type of Calandritis, which would thus supersede m y genus Tephrocorys (vide infra, p. G33). |