17. GALEEITA. 635 



.Jiiv.sk. Cooaoor, Dec. 1880. A. Macu-regor,Esq. [P.]. 



y'. Ad. sk. Malabar. Tweeddale Coll. 



a" , b". Ad. sk. Aujango, Travancore, Dec. Hume Coll. 



4. Galerita isabellina*. 



Cxalerida abvssinica. Bji. Cotiy). i. p. 245 (1850) ; Brehm, Xaniii. 



1858, p. 209; Trisfr. Ibis, 1859, p. 425; Guniey, Ibis, 1871, 



p. 290. 

 Galerida isabellina, Bp. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850) ; Tristr. Ibis, 18.59, 



p. 425 ; Adams, Ibis, 1861, p. 24 ; Loche, Kvpl. Sci. Alyer., Ois. 



ii. p. 40 (1867); Tacz.J.f. 0. 1870, p. 43; Ileuyl. Orn. ^'.0.- 



Afr. iv. App. p. cxlix (1871) ; Dresser, B.Eur, iv. p. .30-3, pi. 230. 



fio;. 1 (1873) ; Kaniy, J. f. O. 1888, p. 219. 

 Galerita Hava, Brehm, J. f. O. 1854, p. 77 ; id. Xaiim. 1858, p. 209 ; 



HeKffl. Orn. X.O.-Afr. '[. pt. 2, p. (382 (1870), iv. App. p. cl (1871) ; 



Homeyer, J.f. O. I;s73, p. 204. 

 Galerita lutea, Brehm, Naum. 1853, p. 210. 

 Galerita areuicola, Tristr. Ibis, 1859, pp. 58, 42(J ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1870, 



p. 15. 

 Alauda abyssinica, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 118, no. 7765 (1870). 

 Alauda isabellina. Gray, t. c. p. 119, no. 7767 (1^70). 

 Alauda cristata, var. isabellina, Seebohm, Hist. Br. B. ii. p. 262 



(1884). 



Adult. Similar to G. cristata, but entirely rufous isabelline above 

 ■with faintly indicated darker centres to the feathers, the crest- 

 feathers darker ; upper tail-coverts and centre tail-feathers sandy 

 rufous, as also the outer webs of the others, the outermost feather 

 rufous, with an oblique dusky mark on the inner web ; under sur- 

 face of body white, purer on the breast and abdomen, with numerous 

 streaks and spots of dusky brown on the fore neck and chest : '■ bill 

 brownish above and yellowish below ; feet yellowish ; iris reddish'' 

 {Loche). Total length 7"S inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4, tail 2-5o, 

 tarsus 1. 



Hah. The desert portions of Korth-east Africa, ranging across to 

 Abyssinia. 



a. Ad. sk. Biskra, Algeria. Sharpe Coll. 



b. cS fid. sk. Taui, Soudau, April. Capt. W. Verner [P.]. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 

 d,e,f.Ad.sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 



y. Var. sk. Zoiilla, Annesley Bay, Feb. 9. AY. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.l. 



h. Ad. sk. Fazogloa. Edward AVilson, Esq. [P.]. 



* I believe G. abyssinica and G. isahclLna of Bonaparte's 'Couspectus' 

 (p. 245) to be the same bird. Of the two names published on the same page I 

 prefer that oi isabellina, &s abyssinica might inter that it is strictly Abyssinian, 

 which is not the case. 



