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to examine three specimens from Malaga, all in winter plumage. 

 These Malaga specimens are smaller than the Algerian, and are not 

 so uniform in colour, having a reddish hind neck and mantle, and 

 also reddish upper tail-coverts ; the back and -wing-coverts are 

 very conspicuously edged with whitish, imparting a peculiar scaly 

 appearance, which is not seen in the Algerian bird as a rule ; the 

 throat and chest are very distinctly streaked with black, these black 

 streaks having a lateral tinge of reddish on the chest. Total length 

 6*5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3"6, tail 2'1, tarsus 0'85. 



I should have decided to keep the Spanish bird distinct as a sub- 

 species on account of its scaled appearance, had not Canon Tristram 

 lent me an Algerian specimen, which had slightly developed white 

 margins to the dorsal feathers, so that these edgings may, after all, 

 only be signs of winter plumage 



Hah. Algerian and Southern Spain. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Malaga, Spain, Oct. 31 {H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Saunders). 



b. Ad. sk. Algeria (Loche). Salvin-Codman Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Algeria. Capt. Loche [C.]. 



Subsp. o. Chersophilus lusitanicus. 



Certhilauda duponti, var. lusitanica, Socage, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 214. 



Adult female (type of species). Smaller than G. duponti, but 

 greyish instead of sandy colour, the feathers of the back and wings 

 rather broadly edged with white, imparting a scaly appearance ; 

 the throat, breast, and sides of body very broadly streaked with 

 blackish brown. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0'85, wing 3-85, 

 tail 2-4, tarsus 1-05. {Mas. Lisb.) 



Hub. Portugal. 



5. RHAMPHOCORYS. „ 



Type. 



Rhamphocorys, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 423 (1850) R. clot-bey. 



lerapterhina, Des Murs ^ Lucas, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1851, p. 24 R. clot-bey. 



Range. Deserts of Lybia and Algeria. 



1. Rhamphocorys clot-bey. 



Melanocorvpha clot-bey, Bp. Consp. i. p. 242 (1850, ex Temm. MSS. 



in Mus.'Lugd.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 120, do. 7787 (1870). 

 Ramphocorys clot-bey, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 423 (1850), xxxviii. p. 66 



(1854) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 424 : Homei/er, J. f. O. 1863, p. 268 ; 



Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 32 (1867) ; Taczan. J. f. O. 



1870, p. 41 ; Shelleg, B. Egypt, p. 144 (1872); Dresser, B. Bur. 



iv. p. 38.3, pi. 24 6(1873). 

 lerapterhina cavaignacii, Des Murs et Lucas, Rev. et 31ag. de Zool. 



1851, p. 24, pi. 1. 

 Alauda clot-bey, Malh. Faun. Orn. <f Alger, p. 21 (1855). 

 Iliprapterhina 'clot-bekii, Heuglin, J. f. O. 1868, p. 220 ; id. Om. 



N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 673 (1870), iv. p. cxlviii (1871) ; Homeyer, J.f. 



O. 1873, p. 187. 



