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Show 1874.1 LARKS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. 635 total length 5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 3*15, tail 2-15, tarsus 0 8. I do not, however, believe that it has got its perfect plumage, the tail being still in full moult. Specimens examined. Emus. Brit. :-a, ad. South Africa (Sir A. Smith), b, c. Cape of Good Hope, d, 3 ad. Cape Town, Sept. 24, 1866 (C. J. Andersson). E mus. R. B. S. -.-b, ad. South Africa (Layard). c, ad. Colesberg (D. Arnot). d,]nv. Graham's Town (E. L. Layard). e,f 3 2 ad. Transvaal (T. Ayres). E mus. H. B. Tristram:-a. South Africa (Layard). b. Cape colony (Andersson). c. Natal (Ayres). dt $ ? Objimbinque, Damara Land, March 13th, 1865 (C. J. Andersson). 11. MELANOCORYPHA. Type. Melanocorypha, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 322 M. calandra. Calandra, Less. Compl. Buff. ii. p. 120 (1837) . . M. calandra. Londra, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 114 M. calandra. Corydon, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 264 (1842, nee Less. 1828) M. calandra. Calandrina, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv. p. 265 (1855) M. torquata. The thickset conical bill is one of the chief characters of the genus. Wings moderately pointed. 12. PALLASIA. Type. Pallasia, E. von Homeyer, J. f. O. 1873, p. 190.. P. mongolica. Remarkable for its short secondaries, which must make it conspicuously different in flight from other Larks. 13. LULLULA. Type. Lullula, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 92 (1829) L. arborea. Corys, Reich L. arborea. Not far removed from Alauda, but differing in the curved hind claw, and long first primary. 14. GALERITA. Type. Galerida, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 321 G. cristata. Heterops, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) G. cristata. Often united by naturalists to Lullula and vice versa. The two genera, however, appear to m e well characterized, the wing-formula and shape of crest being quite different. 15. PYRRHULAUDA. Type. Pyrrhulauda, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 381 (1844)* .. P. australis. Megalotis, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 347 (1827) (nee j\\\ P. leucotis. Coraphites, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. xiii. p. 328(1847) P. australis. * Said by Gray to have been established by Sir A. Smith in 1829. Smith also states the same ; but I cannot find where he proposed the genus. 41* |