from Soma/i/and and Southern Abyssinia. 139 



b. Iris hazel; culmen dark ; mandible wliitisli; legs light 

 horn-colour. Wing 4*3 inches, tail 3'4. 



The measurements of these birds are somewhat larger than 

 those given by Reicheuow in his original description. 



[Very common in the Hawash plain. This Lark is very 

 shy and can be approached only when perching in the early 

 morning. During the day it soai's occasionally to a height 

 of ten feet or so from the ground, where it hovers for two or 

 three minutes at a time. On one occasion, in company with 

 some Abyssinians, I surrounded a bird thus hovering over 

 perfectly bare ground, but though we kept our eyes on the 

 ground we failed either to discover the Lark, when settled, 

 or to get it to rise again. — L.] 



04. Pyrrhulauda leucotis. 



Fyrrhiilauda leucotis (Stanl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 657 (1890). 



a. c? • Kassim river, Abyssinia, 18 January, 1899. 

 (No. 219.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs bluish white. 



65. MOTACILLA ALBA. 



MntaciUaalba Linn.; Sharpe, Cat. Brit. Mus. x. 464(1885) ; 

 Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 66. 



a. ? . Lake Harrar Meyer, Abyssinia, 1 January, 1899. 

 (No. 70.) 



b. ^ . Kassim river, Abyssinia, 18 January, 1899. 

 (No. 229.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



[This Wagtail takes the place of M. vidua on all the rivers 

 not in the Nile basin (Hawash, Kassim river, Gibbeh, and 

 Turgu) .— L.] 



66. MOTACILLA VIDUA. 



Motacilla vidua Sundev. ; Sharpe, Cat. B, Brit. Mus. x. 

 p. 488 (1885) ; id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 473. 



a. ? . Didesa river, Abyssinia, 21 March, 1899. 

 (No. 437.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 



[This Wagtail was found only on the Blue Nile and its 

 tributaries, the Didesa and Dabous rivers. — L.] 



