300 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Pitta abbotti Richmond 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 25 : 298, Sept. 17, 1902. 

 =Pitta sordida abbotti Richmond, fide Deignan MS. 



178566. Adult male. Great Nicobar Island, Nicobar Islands, Bay of Ben- 

 gal northwest of Sumatra. March 30, 1901. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 

 Pitta nioluccensis lepla Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 8, Oct. 26, 1912. 

 =Pitta brachyura moluccensis (P. L. S. Miiller). See Ripley, Bull. Mus. 



Comp. Zool. 94:371-372, 1944; Deignan, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 



186:262,263, 1945. 

 179801. Adult male. Siaba Bay, Nias Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 



Indian Ocean o3 Sumatra. March 15, 1903. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 



Fami/j ALAUDIDAE: Larks 

 Genus ALAUDA Linnaeus 

 Alauda blakistoni Stejneger 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 2 : 98, Apr. 10, 1884. 

 =Alauda arvensis pekinensis Swinhoe. See Hartert, Vogel der palaark- 



tischen Fauna 1 (3) : 248, 1905. 

 92658. Adult male. Bering Island, Commander Islands, southwestern 



Bering Sea. April 19, 1883. Collected by Leonhard H. Stejneger. 



Original number 1995. 

 92660. Adult female. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii, Kamchatka District, 



Far-Eastern Region, U.S.S.R. May 20, 1883. Collected by Leonhard 



H. Stejneger. Original number 2046. 



Genus MIRAFRA Horsfield 



Mirafra Candida Friedmann 



Auk 47 (3) : 418, July 3, 1930. 

 246221. Adult male. Northern Uaso Nyiro River (near Archer's Post, 



Northern Frontier District), Kenya Colony. August 2, 1912. Col- 

 lected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 23386. Childs Frick 



African Expedition. 

 Mirafra pulpa Friedmann 



Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 257, Apr. 4 (not 2), 1930. 

 246241. Adult male. Northern side of the Sagon River (at about lat, 



5°15' N., long. 37°20' E.), southwestern Ethiopia. May 19, 1912. 



Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 21841. Childs Frick 



African Expedition. 

 Mirafra assamica subsessor Deignan 



Zoologica, New York 26 (3) : 241, Oct. 31, 1941. 

 313450. Adult female. Chiang Mai (elev. 1,000 feet), Chiang Mai 



Province, northern Siam. November 24, 1928. Collected by Hugh 



McC. Smith. Original number 2606. 



