Birds from Somali/and. 515 



I have taken Dr. Sharpens key to the Alaudidce in the 

 Cat. of Birds (vol. xiii. p. 51.2) as my guide, and according 

 to this the bird may be a Spizocorys. 



The bird appears to be too unlike any other Lark to 

 make any comparison useful. Unfortunately Capt. Hamevton 

 obtained only one specimen. 



15. PsEUDAL^EMON FREEMANTLII (Lort Phillips). 



44. S- Bera, May 9, 1903. 



135. $ . El Afweeua, Wasangali Country, March 16, 

 1904. 



1(5. Tephkocorys blanfokdi, Shelley, Birds of Africa, 

 vol. iii. p. 1.28, pi. xxi. fig. 2. 



136. S • Gur Anod, Wasangali Country, March 17, 

 1904. 



I have referred this specimen to this species, but the 

 material available is altogether insufficient to make it clear 

 whether the species is a good one or not. The type and only 

 example of the species in the British Museum is certainly 

 very different from typical T. ruficeps, being smaller and very 

 much paler on the back and less rufous on the flanks. 



The specimen procured by Capt. Hamerton is slightly 

 paler than the type and is smaller, measuring in inches as 

 follows : — Wing 3, tarsus "6, culmen '35. 



The type was shot in Northern Abyssinia, while in 

 Western Somaliland the typical T. ruficeps is fouud, so that 

 it would appear strange for another example of T. blanfordi 

 to be found in North-eastern Somaliland. 



More material may prove that the North Abyssinian 

 birds and the North-eastern Somali birds are two distinct 

 races of the typical T. ruficeps. 



17. Ammomanes deserti akeleyi. 



Ammomanes akeleyi Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Pub. 17, 

 vol. i. no. 2, p. 39. 



113. S- Eil Dab, Dec. 23, 1903. 



This specimen has been compared with others in the British 

 Museum collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith, and by Messrs. 

 Lort Phillips and Hawker in Somaliland. These, however, do 



