316 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
P. 247. no. 94. PLatystTIRA SENEGALENSIS. 
This species is distinguished from P/. affinis, besides a difference in the white markings 
of the tail-feathers, by having a broad well-marked white supercilium from the nostrils 
to the nape. In the old male the upper surface of the head is black, in younger males 
and females slate-coloured. A male in the Turin Museum, collected by Marchese 
Antinori, on the Bahr el Ghasal (type of his Muscicapa torquata, Catal. descr. p. 46), 
agrees in every respect with our Senegal specimen (as described, p. 318); another 
specimen, marked female, in Turin, collected by Dr. Bussa in North-east Africa, has a 
chestnut pectoral band like the specimen in Mr. Jesse’s collection; but the upper 
surface of the head is dark grey, the white supercilium as strongly developed as in 
the old male. 
P. 253. no. 102. Lantus Fiscus must stand as Lanius humeralis, Stanl. in Salt’s Tray. 
App. p. 51 (1814); Blanf. p. 338. no. 82. 
P. 257. no. 111. PHOLIDAUGES LEUCOGASTER. 
Mr. Blanford, who places this species in the Indian genus Grandala (p. 367. no. 142) 
(an opinion with which I cannot agree), confesses that the thrush-like-coloured speci- 
mens are females, so that there remains not the slightest doubt concerning this point. 
P. 272. no. 139. GALERITA CRISTATA. 
Of this widely distributed species we have given a full account in our ‘ Végel Ost- 
afrikas’ (p. 460). Alauda (G.) arenicola, Blanf. (p. 387), seems to be, as far as I can 
judge, nothing else than a dark-coloured specimen of G. cristata. G. lutea, Brehm 
(Habesch, p. 218), will probably prove also to be G. cristata, but ought not to be con- 
founded with G. /utea, Brehm, from Senahr and Cordofahn (Naumannia, 1858, p. 209), 
which apparently is a well-marked species. 
P. 278. no. 141. ALMON JESSEI must be A. desertorum, Stanl. 
Further researches have convinced me that this species is not separable from the true 
A. desertorun, as already noticed by the Rev. H. B. Tristram (Ibis, 1869, p. 435) and 
Mr. Blanford (p. 385), and corrected by myself in the Appendix to our new work 
(p. 869). 
The comparison of the types of Certhilauda dorie, Salvad., from Bender Abbas, in 
Persia, in the Museum of Turin, showed me at once its identity with my A. jessei. 
Neither the greyish-brown colour of the upper parts, nor the thickly spotted breast is 
a constant character ; and amongst a larger series all intermediate forms will be shown. 
Specimens from Arabia in the Berlin Museum are still more spotted than the so-called 
A, jessei. The size, especially the length of bill, also varies very much. Of all these 
