110 GALERITA ABYSSINICA. 



Khartoum, and one shot by my friend, Colonel W. Verner, 

 at Tani, in the Soudan, April 9, 1885. Colonel Verner's 

 specimen, and another obtained by Mr. W. D. Cumming at 

 Fao, in Turkish Arabia, are so nearly intermediate in colour 

 between the true G. senegalensis and G. abyssinica, that Dr. 

 Sharpe (Cat. xiii. pp. 631, 635) refers the latter to his 

 " sandy- coloured " race of G. cristata, and the former to 

 G. isdbellina. 



Galerita abyssinica. 



Galerida abyssinica, Bp. Consp. i. p. 245 (1850) Abyssinia. 



Galerita isabellina (nee Bp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 635 (1890, pt.) 



Zoulla, Fazogloa; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 221 (1896). 

 Galerita flava, Brehm, J. f. O. 1854, p. 77 E. Soudan ; Witherby, Ibis, 



1901, p. 244 Khartoum. 



Adult. Most nearly allied to G. senegalensis, but paler, and with the 

 dark parts of the wings of a sandy bronze shade ; the darker portion of the 

 under surface of the quills dusky shaded sandy pink, very slightly contrast- 

 ing with the rufous buff of the edges of the quills, and the under wing- 

 coverts ; sides of head paler than in G. senegalensis and with only a few 

 faintly defined small dark marks ; throat and body white with a sandy buff 

 shade on the crop, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; lower throat with 

 elongated brown spots. " Iris brown ; bill horn colour; legs and feet pale 

 straw colour" (H. F. Witherby). Total length 6'7 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 3-9, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-0. Abyssinia (Verreaux). 



The Abyssinian Pale Crested-Lark inhabits the Abyssinian 

 district. 



In the British Museum the only specimens I should refer 

 to this species are : the example from Fazogloa ; an albino 

 procured by Mr. Blanford at Zoulla, in Annesley Bay, and 

 four specimens labelled 'Abyssinia.' I can find no other 

 reliable information regarding this form, which would appear 

 to be confined to Abyssinia. 



Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B.M. xiii. p. 635, note) writes : " I believe 

 G. abyssinica and G. isabelliva of Bonaparte's 'Conspectus' 



