Alauda breviunguis

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TYPE MATERIAL: In his original description, Sundevall gave measurements of a male and a female. According to his acquisition catalogue nine specimens were available for his description. Gyldenstolpe (1926: 22) referred to NRM 569764 [6502] as a “ type ”, treated here as a lectotype designation of this adult male collected 16 April 1844 at the western side of Varkens River near Rustenburg. The nine paralectotypes include: NRM 569765 [6503] a study skin of a male collected 17 February 1842 at Apies River; NRM 534701 [6496] a mounted male collected 18 April 1844 at the western side of Varkens River near Rustenburg; NRM 534700 [6497], a mounted female collected 6 July 1844 in Leroma (near Pilanesberg); a study skin [6495] of an adult male collected 6 July 1844 at Leroma (but missing from the collection and probably lost); RMNH. AVES. 121592 [6498], an adult male collected 5 July 1844 at Leroma, sent on exchange to Leiden in 1850; a male [6499] collected 5 July 1844 at Leroma, sent on exchange to Berlin in 1853 (but not found in the ZMB collection); a male [6500] collected 5 July 1844 in Leroma, sent on exchange to Lund in 1850; a male [6501], sent on exchange to R. B. Sharpe in London in 1871 (but not found in the NHMUK collection). VERIFIED TYPE LOCALITY: Spitskop (2), adjacent to the Varkens River (= Inkolube River), near Rustenburg, North West Province.