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and the desert regions of S. Palestine, which, however, they 

 resemble in colour. 



Three males examined. Wings 207, 210, 212 mm. 



Type. (^ , Gebeit, Red Sea Province of the Sudan, 

 22.iii. 12. Butler coll., Brit. Mus. Reg. No. 1915.12.24. 

 255. 



Dr. Ernst Harteet exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Michael 

 J. NiCOLL, specimens of a new species of Crested Lark and 

 its allies, and of the Egyptian form of Charadrius varius. 

 Mr. Nicoll described them as follows : — 



Galerida cristata halfse Nicoll, subsp. nov. 



Between G. c.maculata (the dark form of the Lower Nile, 

 which is only surpassed in dark coloration by G. c. nigri- 

 cans of the delta) and the paler G. c. altirostris (^G. c. nuhica 

 of Bianchi, from the Dongola bend of the Nile), greyer and 

 a little darker than the former, not so sandy as the latter. 



Type, c? ad., Wadi Haifa, 2. ii. 1921. Stanley S. Flower 

 Coll. (In the Tring Museum.) 



Ilab. Near Wadi Haifa on the Nile, between the areas 

 inhabited by G. c. maculata and G, c. altirostris. 



Charadrius varius allenbyi Nicoll, subsp. nov. 



Exactly like C. varius varius from tropical Africa, but 

 averages larger : wings, 5 S 102-111 mm., 6 ? 104-112, 

 as against 17 $ 98-106, 16 ? 98-110 in the tropical form. 

 Nearly every specimen can be distinguished, though there 

 is some overlapping. 



Type of C. V. allenbyi. ? , Lake Karoon, Egypt, 10. iii. 

 1917, D. Baton leg. (In the Tring Museum.) 



Hah. Egypt. 



Named in honour of Field-Marshal Viscount Sir Edmund 

 Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt. 



Dr. Hartert also exhibited an albinistic female of 

 Halcyon clitoris shot at Brooketon, Brunei State, Borneo, 

 sent by Mr. J. C. Moulton from the Raffles Museum, 

 Singapore. Its head and back are white with a faint 

 pinkish-blue tinge, quills and wing-coverts very pale viola- 



