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upper-parts and more buff under-parts. As these birds have 
hitherto been called Cisticola cisticola cisticola,and must now 
receive a new name, I propose for them 
Cisticola cisticola harterti, nom. nov. 
Type 3. Platea, Greece, Dec. 9, 1905. Collected by 
H. Lynes, and now in my collection. 
N.B.—It must be mentioned that two birds in the British 
Museum Collection, collected in Valencia in November and 
December, are clearly referable to C. ¢. harterti—on the 
other hand, breeding birds from the same district are as 
clearly C. ¢. cisticola,—and these two must, I think, have 
been migrants. 
Sazicola t. rubicolaa—A series of eight from Algeciras 
shows that the Stonechat there is of the typical form, unlike 
the Portuguese birds which are undoubtedly S. t. hibernans, 
the British form. 
Erithacus r. rubecula.—A series of six, but none of them 
definitely breeding birds, are of the typical form. Robins 
from Portugal are like the British form. 
Galerida cristata pallida and G. thekle thekle.—Surgeon 
Stenhouse has sent me three G. cristata pallida and two 
G. thekle thekle from Algeciras, and I am exhibiting these 
because there are a good many ornithologists, especially egg- 
collectors, who do not realize that two distinct species of 
Crested Lark occur in Spain. G. cristata pallida is slightly 
paler on the upper-parts, slightly less streaked on the breast, 
and has a tinge of pinkish on the belly, but these differences 
are very slight. ‘The differences which always distinguish 
it are: longer bill, 18-20 mm. as against 15-17 mm. in 
G. t. thekle, shorter first primary, 2-5 mm. shorter than 
longest primary-covert instead of equal to, or 1-5 mm. 
longer, as in G. t. thekle, the isabelline colour of the 
axillaries and under wing-coverts which are not smoky-grey 
asin G. t. thekle. 
