106 GALERITA. 



Type. 



Galerida, Boie, Ibis, 1828, p. 321 G. cristata. 



Spizalauda, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 258 (1855). . . G. deva. 



Ptilocorys, Madarasz, Magyar Mad. Fuz. ii. p. 48 (1899) . G. cristata. 



The genus Galerita is closely allied to Ala^ida and forms a good con- 

 necting link between the foregoing genera and those that follow. The 

 GaleritcB are most readily distinguished from the Almida by their longer 

 bastard primary, and their habit of perching at times on bushes. 



The "G. cristata" group is represented in the Ethiopian 

 Kegion by G. senegalensis, which I here treat as specifically 

 distinct from G. cristata, the more northern form, which has 

 not to my knowledge been met with to the south of the 

 Tropic of Cancer. G. abyssinica may be only a subspecies of 

 G. senegalensis, for I have seen intermediate forms from Tani, 

 near Khartoum, and from Fao on the Persian Grulf. 



It also appears to me that G. ellioti and G. praetermissa are 

 scarcely more than subspecies of G. thecMse, for in the British 

 Museum there are two specimens of G. cristata jpallida, 

 Whitaker, very similar to Somali specimens of G. ellioti, 

 and specimens of G. thecldse from Cadiz (J. Osborne), and 

 G. p-astermissa, S, 22. 1. 99, Jifadensa (Lord Lovat), are 

 remarkable for their likeness to each other. 



KEY TO THE GENERA AND SPECIES OF CRESTED- 

 LARKS. 



a. Bill more slender ; pale pattern of tail sandy 



buff, extending over half of the outer feather 



and nearly the whole of the outer web of the 



next. 



0,1 Larger ; wing not less than 3'5 inches ; 



crest strongly developed. (Galekita.) 



