GALERITA ELLIOTT. IH 



(p. 245) to be the same bird. Of the two names published on 

 the same page I prefer that of isabellina, as ahyssinica might 

 infer that it is strictly Abyssinian, which is not the case." 

 The accuracy of this final remark is open to discussion when 

 we find that Mr. Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1897, pp. 142-147) 

 divides G. cristata, Auct., into seventeen or eighteen sub- 

 species; two of which he calls G. cristata isabellina, Bp., and 

 G. cristata flava (C. L. Brehm, 1854). I do not agree with 

 Mr. Hartert that the name G. flava has any right to supplant 

 that of G. ahyssinica, which is described as differing from G. 

 cristata in its "colore deserti," and resembling G. isabellina in 

 colour; but is supposed to be larger, and to be a native of 

 Abyssinia. The G. isabellina, Bp., would appear to refer to 

 a more northern race, probably the G. cristata pallida of 

 Whitaker (Ibis, 1895, p. 100). 



Galerita ellioti. 



Galerita ellioti, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1897, p. 144 Soviali. 

 Galerita pallida (nee Whitaker), Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. i. No. 2, p. 

 38 (1897) Somali. 



Adult. General plumage very similar to that of G. senegalensis, but with 

 the upper parts of a more sandy rufous shade and the dark centres to the 

 feathers rather narrower and more sharply defined. Most readily distin- 

 guished from G. senegalensis by its smaller and shorter bill and longer 

 bastard-primary, the latter reaching just to the tip of the primary-coverts. 

 Iris brown ; bill horn colour passing into flesh colour at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; tarsi and feet flesh colour (Elliot). Total length 6-6 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 4, tail 25, tarsus 0"85. <y , 14. 12. 97. Ujawaji 

 (Hawker). 



Elliot's Crested-Lark inhabits Soraaliland. 



Mr. Elliot procured two male specimens of this Lark, one 

 at Hagahbar and the other at Hersi Barri in Ogaden, and 

 named it G. pallida; but as that name had been previously 

 given to a Tunisian bird by Mr. J. J. S. Whitaker, Ibis, 1895, 



