GALERITA SENEGALENSIS. 109 



The type of the species came from Senegambia. From 

 this district there are seven specimens in the British Museum. 

 The late Sir E. Sabine procured the species at Sierra Leone ; 

 and Dr. Reichenow, during his visit to Accra, on the Gold 

 Coast, found the species generally distributed over the sur- 

 rounding plains. In the Niger district, which is about the 

 most southern range known for these Larks, Mr. Hartert found 

 them frequenting the northern highlands from December to 

 March, after which month they apparently migrated north- 

 ward. 



To the eastward, in nearly the same latitude, specimens 

 have been collected by Mr. Lort Phillips on the Bei-bera plains 

 in Somaliland in January, at Gedais in February, and at 

 Sogsoda in March, and he writes : " We found the Crested 

 Lark both on the plateau and on the Maritime plain. At 

 Berbera itself it frequents the cattle market, where it may 

 always be seen on the rubbish heaps." Mr. Pease records 

 it as very common throughout Somaliland, and he collected 

 specimens at Somadu in November, and at Las Man in April. 

 Other specimens have been obtained by Mr. Hawker at 

 Ujawaji, and by Dr. Donaldson Smith at Biji and Magog. 



Mr. Blanford found the species common along the coast 

 at Massowa, and in the British Museum there is one obtained 

 by Mr. Jesse at Amba, and a fine series from Asia, including 

 the type of Alauda leautvngensis, Swinhoe, from China, which 

 in no way differs from Senegambian specimens ; and I think 

 that we may refer to this species Dr. Sharpe's " Rufous-tailed " 

 and " Sandy-coloured " races of G. cristata (Cat. B. M. xiii. 

 pp. 630, 631). 



As this Lark is apparently common in both West and 

 North-east Africa, it is strange that it has uot been procured 

 in Central Africa : it is known to me from the Nile valley 

 by only two specimens recently collected by Mr. Hawker at 



