51G Mr. II. F. Wither-by on 



not agree with Mr. Elliot's description, in that the rumps are 

 bright deep buff like the under wing and not by any means 

 " golden buff/' and the colouring of the top of the head does 

 not form a " kind of cap/' but is similar to that of the back, 

 except that the dark brown mesial markings of the feathers 

 on the head are accentuated. But as the birds appear to 

 come from the same region, and the description otherwise 

 tallies, perhaps these specimens are the same as the type. 



I cannot agree -with Capt. Shelley (Birds of Afr. vol. iii. 

 p. 97) that this bird is the same as A. d. phcenicuroides. 

 They seem to me perfectly distinct, and I think A. d. akcleyi 

 is more nearly like A. d. algeriensis. 



" Common on the stony summits of hills." — A. E. H. 



18. GALERIDA THEKLjE ELLIOTI. 



Galerida ellioti Ilartert, Nov. Zool. 1897, p. 144. 



Galerida pallida (non pallida Brehm) Elliot, Field Columb. 

 Mus. Pub. 17, vol. i. no. 2, p. 38. 



101. ? . Eil Dab, Feb. 12, 1904 [wing 3*8 inches]. 



This specimen has the short bill and long first (bastard) 

 primary like other members of the Galerida theklte group, 

 but its under wing-coverts are pale buff without a trace of 

 grey, -while all other theklce have grey on the under wing- 

 coverts. 



Dr. Hartert, to whom I have submitted the specimen, 

 considers it to be, from the description, referable to G. elliuii, 

 but neither he nor myself has had access to the type. 



19. Pyrrhulaupa melanauchen (Cab.). 

 6. <J. Obbia, Jan. 13, 1903. 



I think that this bird will prove to belong to an undescribed 

 race most nearly allied to P. melanauchen, but the m;de with 

 no white frontal spot and with the mantle very pale. In 

 this specimen, which is too much abraded to make a proper 

 description or comparison possible, the mantle and upper 

 wing-coverts are nearly white, but the bird is no doubt much 

 faded, as the black part of the plumage has become a rusty- 

 brown. There is no trace of a white frontal spot, and I 

 think the bird could never have had one. 



