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164. Brehm's Crested Lark. Galerida cristata altirostris Brelim. 



Galerita altirostris. Brehm, Volgelfang, 1855, p. 124. 



Inhabits the poorer soil on the edge of the cultivation from 

 the Mediterranean coast to Aswan. 



Paler and more ochreoiis on upper parts than the former. 

 Spots on breast not so dark or distinct. Wings shorter. 



165. Pale Crested Lark. Galerida cristata caroli Hartert. 



Plate 23. 



Resident in the Wadi Natrun and in the sandy and lake 

 districts of Lower Egypt. 



Very sandy coloured on upper parts. Whitish below, with 

 narrow brownish streaks on the breast. 



166. Short-tailed Crested Lark. Galerida cristata brachyura 



Tristram. 



Resident at Suez and neighbourhood.. 



More rufous than the preceding. 



Shelley, page 138, recognizes the difference in coloration 

 of some of the Egyptian crested larks, but does not separate 

 them as races. 



167. Grey Skylark. Alauda arvensis cinerea Ehmcke. Plate 27, 



fig. 15. 

 Alauda intermedia. Shelley, p. 140. 



Common throughout the winter months. 



Much greyer than the English skylark. 



Length 7J inches. U^jper parts grey brown mottled with 

 dark brown ; under parts creamy white ; the throat and fore 

 neck streaked with brown ; tail brown, the central pair of feathers 

 grey browm, white on the outer pair ; wing brown edged with 

 white. 



168. Intermediate Skylark. Alauda arvensis cantarella Bona- 



parte. 

 Alauda arvensis. Shelley, p. 139. 



Common throughout the wdnter months. 

 Resembles the former, but is brow^ner in coloration. 



169. Indian Skylark. Alauda gulgula inconspicua Severzow. 



Not previously recorded from Egypt or Africa. 

 Two seen and one obtained by the writer in the Wadi 

 Natrun, Lower Egypt, in October 1914. 



Smaller than a skylark and more yellowish in coloration. 



