140 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



sider it regular in its visits and abundant in Lower Egypt 

 during the early spring. I have a specimen collected at 

 Alexandria in March which corresponds in every respect with 

 A. arvensis from England ; the other specimens, four in 

 number, which I collected in the Delta and Fayoom, ai'e the 

 true A. intermedia of Swinhoe. 



Upper plumage brown, with pale edgings to the feathers, 

 more especially on the back of the neck ; rump inclining to 

 grey ; upper tail-coverts strongly tinted with rufous ; quills 

 brown, narrowly edged with dull white ; wing-coverts paler 

 than the back, and more sandy in colour ; tail bnjwn, the two 

 centre feathers lighter and washed with grey towards the 

 tip ; outer feather on each side white, the inner web edged with 

 dusky ; the second feather has the outer web white ; cheeks 

 and eyebrows sandy colour ; under surface of the body creamy- 

 white, with the lower part of the throat and crop washed with 

 yellowish brown and streaked with dark brown ; beak flesh- 

 colour, shading into brown on the culmen ; legs flesh-colour ; 

 irides brown. 



Entire length 7"7 inches ; culmen 0'6 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4-4 ; tarsiis 0-9. 



A. intermedia, Swinhoe. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 89. 



I only separate the present form as a subspecies of A. ar- 

 vensis, a mere climatic variety, similar in measurements to 

 that bird but differing in plumage, yet so slightly that a 

 description almost fails to point out any true distinction, 

 though in a series of Larks the eye will enable one readily 

 to distinguish the bird. Von Heughn (Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 

 679) has included this subspecies under A. arvensis without 

 remark. It is the A. ca/ilarella of authors, but wA of liona- 



