1921,] the Near East and Trojncal East Africa. G51 



sordidus and more heavily spotted. Wing 90-102, culnien 

 17-19-5. 



This race appears to extend from southern Abyssinia to 

 Kenya Colony, where I collected specimens at Naivasha and 

 Nakurii in the Rift Valley, and I have examined others from 

 Kisumii on the Victoria Nyanza and the Kedong Escarpment. 



Anthus s. nyassae. 



Antlius nicholsoui. ny/ass(r Neumann, J. f. 0. 1906, p. 233: 

 near Songea in Tanganyika Territory, east of the north end 

 of Lake Nyasa. 



1 have not examined any specimens from tlie type-locality. 



Up[»er parts (teste Neumann) spotted as in nicholsoni and 

 loiKjirostris, darker than loiKjirostris but with a tlifferent 

 and more brownish tone on the plumage. Lower breast and 

 abdomen darker than nicJwlsoni or longirostris, sharply defined 

 froui the pure white chin and throat. Sides of head darker. 

 Wing and culmen smaller. Wing 86-95. 



Inhabits the country north and north-east of Lake Nyasa 

 to Uhelie in Tanganyika Territory. 



Anthus s. nicholsoni. 



Anthus nicholsoni Sluirpe ed. Lay.-ird's B. S. At'r. 1884, 

 p. 536 : South Africa ; no definite loc. 



Many examined from Zululand and Bloemfontein. 



Ahove ])aler (yellower) and more uniform than lonairostris. 

 Below not so fulvous and less heavily spotted. 



Appears to extend throughout Cape Province (Caj)eto\vn 

 and Kingwilliamstown) to Bloemfontein and the Vaal 

 River in the Transvaal, and to Zululand and perhaps 

 Damaraland. 



ANTHUS RICHARDI. 



In comparing the ricliardi- and ?';//« /ws-groups from Asia, 

 I was struck by the lack of any definite character dis- 

 tinguishing them, and am therefore inclined to agree with 

 Stresemann (Nov. Zool. 1912) and Hartert (Vpg. pal. 



