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bird, is agreed upon by both Hartert and myself, as is also 

 the very pale G. c. isabellina from Upper Nubia and the 

 Egyptian Sudan. G. c. mceritica differs from G. c. alti- 

 rostris Brehm (Vogelfang, p. 124, 1855) by having longer 

 wings and, in a large series, generally having whiter under- 

 parts and smaller, more clear-cut spots on the jugulum. 



G. c. nubica Bianchi is a totally different form, and is 

 very close to and hardly separable from G. c. caroli Hartert, 

 which Hartert does not mention in the paper under review ! 



The last paragraph of Dr. Hartert's paper is best 

 answered by the last paragraph on p. 547 of my paper, 

 Ibis, 1914, pp. 546-551. 



That Hartert does not recognize G. c. mosritica from the 

 Fiiylim, alters Brehm's names in no way whatever. The 

 earliest published name of the " Upper Egyptian^' Crested 

 Lark is Galerita altirostris C. L. Brehm, ' Vogelfang,' 

 p. 124, 1855, and the selection of the type, whether it be 

 from Kom Ombo or Aswan, is of no significance seeing 

 that they belong to one and the same form ! 



The fact of '* alterations " having been written, crossed 

 out, and then underpunctuated on the label of the Kom 

 Ombo bird makes or should make no difference to anyone, 

 least of all to Hartert, who has frequently expressed to me 

 personally and also done so in print that a scientific name 

 on a label is unnecessary. When I wrote my paper on 

 Egyptian Crested Larks in 1914 I had before me 136 

 specimens from Egypt, and although I have since added 

 a considerable number, I have had no reason to alter any 

 of the decisions I then put into print, but rather those 

 decisions have been strengthened. 



The point of these remarks is to fix the name altirostris to 

 the form of Crested Lark which occurs from the Mediter- 

 ranean coast of Egypt to at least as far south as Aswan on 

 poorer soil than that inhabited by G. c. nigricans, the type- 

 locality of which is Upper Egypt. 



Hartert's selection of the type of altirostris as a bird shot 

 near Ambukkol is most incorrect, as the Ambukkol referred 

 to is south of Dougola and cannot by any stretch of 



