141 ■ [Vol. xlii. 



when he was writing the ' Catalogue o£ Birds Brit. Mus.,' 

 vol. viii. They are certainly not the types of either 

 C Mmalayana or any other race, and must be ignored. 



1 find that CertJiia Mmalayana is separable into three 

 races : — 



CertJiia himalayana Mmalayana Vigors, from the Central 

 Himalayas about Simla, Garhwal, Kumaon, and east to 

 Sikkim. Upper parts more rufous than the other races. 

 Over 40 examined. 



CertMa Mmalayana tceniura Severtzow, from Turkestan. 

 Ten examples examined from Samarkand. The greyest 

 race with large culmen. 



2 females : wing 67-68, culmen 20-21 mm. 

 8 males : „ 70-75, „ 22-2Q mm. 



Certhia Mmalayana limes, subsp. nov. ^ 



Adult male. Upper parts not so rufous as C. li. Mma^ 

 layana and not so grey as in C. h. tceniura. Crown almost 

 as dark as in C. h. Mmalayana, but never so pale or grey as 

 in C. h. tceniura. Underparts as in C. h. tcemura and 

 lacking the rufous of C. h. Mmalayana. 



11 females : wing 65-70, culmen 18-23 mm. 



17 males : „ 67-73, „ 19-24 mm. 



Type in the Brit. Mus. ^ , Gilgit, 5000 ft., 13. ii. 79. 



Reg. No. 97.12.10.2375. 



45 specimens, from Gilgit, Hunza, Sonamerg, Cashmir, 

 Murree, Paiwar Kotal, Jellalabad, Pushut in Afghanistan, 

 Zhob Valley, Kohat, Fort Sandeman, the Salt Range, 

 Peshawur, and two in mj own collection from Ziarat 

 near Quetta. 



Mr. David Bannerbian sent the description of a new 

 Little Crested Lark from the Cameroon highlands, which 

 he proposed to name 



Heliocorys modesta saturatior, subsp. nov. _4^ 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to U. m. hucolica Hartl., 

 but even darker on the upper parts than that race ; the 



