440 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAK XXIV. 1917. 



is undoubtedly wrong, but I had seen at the time no specimens of inacuhiln 

 except those two taken by Brehm half a century before. 



South of the habitat of macnlata lives a paler form, often with a thicker 

 bill, 



Galerida cristata altirostris Brehm. 



Of this we have now in the Tring Museum specimens from " Nubia," Brehm 

 coll., Kerma, Hon. N. C. Rothschild leg., Merowe on the Dongola bend of the 

 Nile (not Meroe !), N. C. Rothschild leg. It appears to be, therefore, the true 

 Nubian form, living south of Wadi Haifa along the " Dongola bend." C. L. 

 Brehm, whenfirst naming this form (Vogeljang, p. 124. 1855), said, "Oberagypten," 

 and in 1858 (Naumannia, p. 209), he said, " Oberegypten, Nubien und bei Murcia 

 in Spanien ! " But C. L. Brehm's ideas of Upper Egypt and Nubia were not 

 very fi.xed, and he had no regard for geographical distribution. As the type 

 of the name altirostris must be regarded an adult male shot by A. E. Brehm in 

 "Nubia," 21. ix. 1851. The label only says "Nubien," but the bird had 

 been shot near Akascheh and not very far from Ambukol. according to A. E. 

 Brehm's Reiseskizzen. 



South of the Dongola bend we come into the region of the much paler 



Galerida cristata isabellina Bp. 



of wliich we have a series from the Lower Atbara, Shendi, and Khartum. 

 To repeat, we have thus in the valley of the Nile : 



1. G. cristata nigricans Brehm. 



(Synonym, G. cristata deliae Hart. 1897.) 

 Inhabits the delta of the Nile. 



2. G. cristata macnlata Brehm. 



(Synonym, G. cristata inoeritica, Nicoll & Bonh. 1909.) 

 Egypt south of Cairo and north of Wadi Haifa ; exact limits not yet known, 

 lint extending north to Lake Menzaleh. I cannot separate the Fayoum birds. 



n. G. cristata altirostris Brehm. 



Nile Valley south of Waili-Hnlfa and north nf the Atbara, i.e. the " Don- 

 gola bend," Nubia. 



4. (I. cri.'<l(ilii i.^alnUiiiii I'p. 



(Synonyms, f,ava and lutea Brehm.) 



Eastern Sudan, from the Bajuda stp]i]ie and the Atbara to the Blue and 

 White Nile. 



I am sorry to say that I cannot agree with the conclusions of ]\ir. Nicoll 

 {Ibis, 1914. pp. 546-551). That he took a specimen which should not be con- 

 sidered as the type of altirostris to be the type specimen was perhaps my fault, 

 as I formerly thought it might be the type. The Kom-Ombos bird was evidently 

 once thought l)y Biehni to be the same as his ullirostris, and in fact it is hardlj' 

 distinguishable from it, but Kom-Ombos being in Upper Egypt and not in Nubia, 

 we must for geographical reasons consider it to be a non-typical example of 

 macnlata. If we treat (he forms nd names as I do now, the distribution becomes 



