646 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [This, 



Mediterranean Islands (Balearics, Corsica, and Crete), 

 Algeria, and Morocco. Common on passage in Palestine, 

 Egypt, and Algeria. Common in winter in north Somali- 

 land and the Sudan^ straggling to Kenya Colony. 



Anthus c. griseus Nicoll, Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, p. 25 : 

 Turkestan. 



Agrodroma campestris mmor (neo Brehm), R, Blasius, 

 1900 : Etawah, N.W. India. 



30 examined, including the type. 



Greyish above compared with the typical race and generally 

 smaller. About 50 per cent, are unspotted. Wing 82-90, 

 94,95. Culmen lG-18. A female in Witherby's collection, 

 shot from the nest near Peshawar in north-western India 

 by Hariugton, is undoubtedly this form, and appears to lie a 

 dwarf, having a wing of only 77 mm. and a culmen of 17 mm. 



Breeds in north-western India (Peshawar), Turkestan, 

 eastern Persia, Trauscaspia, and perhajis Egypt. I obtained 

 an adult and four young birds near Helouan in Egypt on 9. xi. 

 and 15. xi. ; obviously a family party as I saw no others. 

 Nicoll has obtained others in autumn and winter from Egypt. 

 It also occurs in winter in Soistan, northern India, United 

 Provinces, Rajputana, Central India, and south to the 

 Bombay Presidency. 



ANTHUS SORDIDUS. 



Head and back of adults in fresh autumn plumage more 

 or less indistinctly blotched or streaked. In worn plumage 

 the upper parts tend to become more uniform. General 

 colour above brown, without any of the olive tinge which 

 occurs in the leucophri/s-groui). Breast distinctly marked 

 with diffused spotting in all forms, but in Persia and Pales- 

 tine one occasionally finds birds with unspotted breasts._ 



1st to 4th primaries usually almost equal. 



The outer web of the penultimate tail-feather is black- 

 brow'i with a paler fringe. Outer tail-feather never with 

 pure white on it, but yellowish-bufl' or brown to yellowish- 

 white. 



