656 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 



Two birds from Senaar and Eritrea seem to be very near, 

 but are slightly less cinnamon. Sclater and Praed (Ibis, 

 1918, p. G15) found no birds of this race in the Butler, Chap- 

 man & Lynes, or Christy collections ; but there are in the 

 British Museum examples from Khartoum and the Lado 

 Enclave which they assign to this race_, and which have 

 presumably been compared with Abyssinian birds. 



Wing 88-96, culmen 16-17*5, hind claw 11 mm. 



Apparently inhabits the highlands of Abyssinia, east to 

 Ailet near Massowah, and perhaps west to the Sudan. 



Anthus r. annae, subsp. nov. 



A series of 17 birds in the collection of Sir Geoffrey 

 Archer from northern Somaliland, 6 of which are in freshly- 

 moulted plumago, when compared with chinamomeiis from 

 Abyssinia, shows that the Somaliland race almost completely 

 lacks the cinnamon tinge of the Abyssinian birds. They are 

 a much browner bird. Under parts much whiter. Generally 

 smaller in both wing and culmen. Birds from south-western 

 Arabia agree in every way. In worn plumage they bleach 

 to various shades of dull uniform brown or earth-brown. 



Wing of males 86-89 mm., culmen 16-18 mm. 



Wing of females 78-86 mm., culmen 15-16 mm. 



Hind claw 9-11 mm. 



It is curious that Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1917) and other 

 writers should have assigned this distinct race to A. r. cinna- 

 momeiis. 



Type. ? 29. ix. 18, Megago, northern Somaliland, 4000 feet 

 (No. 1571, coll. G. Archer). 



Anthus r. lacuum. 



Anthus r. lacuum Meinertzhagen, Bull. B.O.C. xli. 1920, 

 p. 22 : Lake Naivasha in Kenya Colony. 



84 examined. 



Dai'ker, less cinnamon and more fulvous than c'lnnamomeus. 

 Generally a greyer bird. Wing 82-91, 95, 99, 100 ; culmen . 

 15-17, 18 ; hind claw 9-12*5 mm. 



Appears to be a resident from the coast at Bagomoyo 

 (Tanganyika Territory) to the north end of Lake Tanganyika, 



