166 



OKNKItA AN I) Sl'WlKS OK BIRDS. 



Xri. ALAUDA, Linn.* 



(Sbarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 566, 1890 ; 



Biauchi, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. ix. pp. xx-xxii, 

 1904 ; id. Wiss. Ees. Przew. Eeis., Aves, pp. 329- 

 330, 1905; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, i. p. 243, 

 1905.) 



1. arvensis, Linn. (p. 567.) 



(Bianchi, tt. cc. pp. xxix, 329; Hartert, i.e. 



p. 242.) 

 can/arella, Bp. 1841, 1850 (p. 567, pt.) : 

 dulcivox, Hodg-s., Brooks, 1873: pekinetisis, 

 Swinhoe, 18(53 : intennedm, Swinhoe, 1863 

 (p. 567, pt.) : armeniaca, Bogdanow, 1879 : 

 nana, Giglioli, 1886 : scotica, Tsuiiusi, 1903, 

 Om. Jahrb. xii. p. 162 : cinerea, Ehmeke, 

 1903, Journ. Orn. p. 149: siihaJpina, Ehmeke, 



1903, /. c. p. 150 : flavescens, Ehmeke, 1903, 

 /. c. p. 151 : cincrascens, Ehmeke f. Reiche- 

 now, 1904, 1, c. p. 313 : intercedc/ns, Ehmeke, 



1904, Ann. Mus. Hung. ii. p. 296: halcanica, 

 Ehmeke, 1904, 1, c. p. 297 : miniita, Ehmeke, 

 1904, /. c. p. 298 : schach, Ehmeke, 1904, /. c. 

 p. 299 : beludshistana, Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. 

 p. 299 : cypriaca, Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. p. 300 : 

 i/isic/aris, Ehmeke, 1904. /. ''. p. 300 : sor- 

 dida, Ehmeke, 1904, /. c. p. 300 : subtilU, 

 Ehmeke, 1904, I.e. p. 300. 



[C/. Hartert, VGg. Pal. Faun. i. pp. 246-248.] 



From Atlantie and the 

 Mediterranean coun- 

 tries throughout 

 Europe and Western 

 Asia to tlie Lena River 

 and North-eastern 

 Mongolia ; in winter 

 to Sahara, N.W. 

 Himalayas, Zaidam, 

 and the basin of Lower 

 Yang-tse-kiang. 



2. harterti, Whitaker, Bull. B. O. C. xv. pp. 19-20. 

 (Harten, t.c. p. 247.) 



Northern Tunis 

 and Algeria. 



3. blakistoni, Stejneger, 1884, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, ii. p. 98; id. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. xvi. 1892, p. 304. 

 (Bianchi, t. c. pp. xxx, 329.) 



N.E. Siberia from the 

 Lena River to 

 Amoorland ; in winter 

 to the basin of the 

 Lower Yang-tse-kiang. 



4. blixtoni, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 xxi, p. 247 (1895). 



Giehiga River, 

 N.E. Siberia. 



* l>r. Bianchi has recently made a study of the Sky-Larks, and has communicated 



his conclusions to me for the purposes of the present work. 



