1895. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 467 



Male, adult, Haramosli, Baltistan, February 16, 1892; 5,000 feet. 

 "Bill yellowish, black along' culnien; irides pale brown; feet brownish 

 flesh- length, 7J inches." 



55. ALAUDA ARVENSIS INTERMEDIA (Swinhoe). 



Male, adult. Vale of Kashmir, June L'T, 1891. 



Male, adult, Vale of Kashmir, August 12, 1891. 



Male, adult, Vale of Kashmir, October 27, 1891; 5,000 feet. 



Adult, Vale of Kashmir, winter of 1891-92. 



Male, adult. Mount Montir, central Kashmir, July IG, 1891; 10,000 

 feet. Two specimens. 



Male, adult, central Kashmir, September 23, 1891 ; 11,000 feet. "Upper 

 mandible dark brown above, pale along commissure; lower mandible 

 X)aler; feet pale brownish flesh color; length, Gg inches." 



Male, adult, Leh, Ladak, July 3, 1893 ; 11,500 feet. " Bill dark brown 

 above, pale fleshy beneath; feet pale fleshy brown; length, G| inches." 



Two of the above specimens (those taken September 23 and October 

 27), in fresh winter plumage, ditt'er from the rest in possessing shorter 

 and slenderer bills, but whether this is due to age, or represents a more 

 northern form, I am unable to decide. 



This is the Alauda guttata or A. Jeiopus of authors. The name leiopus 

 of Hodgson, being a nomen nudum, can not be used, and the same applies 

 to the Ahmda dulcivQ.v of the same author. Alauda intermedia of Swin- 

 hoe ' is ai)parently the flrst available name for this bird, antedating the 

 Alauda guttata of Brooks by about thirteen years. Tlie name was 

 originally applied to birds from Shanghai, but as near as I can ascer- 

 tain, birds from Vladivostok are referable to the same form, and as we 

 have specimens from the latter place, T have used them for comparison 

 with the Kashmir birds, with which they appear to be identical. 



In the event of the Kashmir birds proving distinct from those of the 

 east of China, they should, of course, receive the name guttata of Brooks. 



56. CALANDRELLA TIBETANA, Brooks. 



Female, adult, Leh, Ladak, July 1, 1893; 11,000 feet. "Upper man- 

 dible dark horn brown; lower mandible dull yellow; irides brown; feet 

 pale brown; length, 5g inches." 



Male, adult, Leh, Ladak, July 3, 1893; 11,500 feet. "Bill dark horn 

 brown above, dirty yellow beneath; irides brown; feet pale fleshy 

 brown, soles yellowish; length, G inches." 



Male, adult, Leh, Ladak, July 3, 1893; 11,500 feet. "Bill dark horn 

 brown above, dirty yellow beneath; feet pale fleshy brown, soles yellow- 

 ish; length, G inches." 



iProc. Zool. See. London, 1863, p. 89. 



