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Galerida Boie. 



1. 0. cristata L. 



a. 0. cristata cristata L. Europe generally. 



*b. G. cristata sirnegallensis (P. L. S. Mlill.) SenegamLia, Hausa-land ; 

 according to Sharpe, to Sonth Spain, etc. 



c. G. cristata the/dae (C. L. Brehm). South Spaiu, Morocco ; according 



to Whitaker, to Tunis (coast), where, however, evidently not typical, 

 but more pointing to a. 



d. G. cristata macrorhyncha Tristr. Algeria, Tunis. 



e. G. cristata arenicola Tristr. Algeria, Tunis. (Details of distribution, see 



Koenig, Whitaker.) 



*/• G. cristata superjiaa Hartert. Tunis, Algeria. (Not known to me, but 

 evidently a good form. Name with regard to the overflowing richness 

 of forms in Tunis and Algeria.) 



g. G. cristata ddtae Hartert. Nile Delta. 



h. G. cristata flava (C. L. Brehm). Nubia. 



*/. G. cristata isahellina (Bp.). Egypt, Tunis, and Algeria. 

 *k.l. Evidently two mountain forms in Abyssinia, of which more knowledge 

 is required. Synonyms at present doubtful to me. 



m. G. cristata magna (Hume). Distribution probably wide, not yet quite 

 worked out. (Extremely close to d.) (?) 



*n. G. cristata leautungensis (Swinh.). North China. (Perhaps not separ- 

 able from G. magna.) (?) 

 0. (t. cristata chendoola (Frankl.). North-West India. 



p. G. cristata malabarica (Scoj).). South India. 



*q. G. cristata caucasica Tacz. Caucasus. (Unknown to me.) 



*r. G. cristata coreensis Tacz. Corea. (Unknown to me.) 

 2. G. deva (Sykes). India, Cutch to Etawah and Madras. 



We have thus two species, one of them divided into thirteen to seventeen 

 subspecies — more to be discovered by-and-by.* 



* While these words were in print there appeared Elliot's description of a new form from Somaliland. 

 A. cllioti Hartert. It is probably a subspecies of G. cristata (see antea, p. 144). 



