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GENEBA AND SPECIES OF BIJIDS. 



XII. ALAUDA, Unn. * 



(Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 566, 1890 ; 



Bianchi, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. Petersb. ix. pp. xx-xxxi, 

 1904; id. Wiss. Ees. Przew. Eeis., Aves, pp. 329- 

 330, 1905; Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, i. p. 243, 

 1905.) 



1. arvensis, lAnn. (p. 567.) 



(Bianchi, tt. cc. pp. xxix, 329 ; Hartert, t. c. 



p. 242.) 

 cantarella, Bp. 1841, 1850 (p. 567, pt.) : 

 dulcivox, Hodgs., Brooks, 1873 : pekinensis, 

 Swinhoe, 1863 : intermedia, Swinhoe, 1863 

 (p. 567, pt.) : cwmeniaca, Bogdanow, 1879 : 

 Tiana, Giglioli, 1886 : scotica, Tschusi, 1903, 

 Orn. Jahrb. xii. p. 162: cinerea, Ehmete, 



1903, Journ. Orn. p. 149: subalpina, Ehmeke, 

 1903, 1. 0. p. 150 : flavescens, Ehmeke, 1903, 

 I. c. p. 151 : cinerascens, Ehmeke f. Eeiche- 

 now, 1904, 1. 0. p. 313: intercedens, Ehmeke, 



1904, Ann. Mua. Hung. ii. p. 296: balcanica, 

 Ehmeke, 1904, 1, c. p. 297 : mintita, Ehmeke, 

 1904, 1, c. p. 298 : schach, Ehmeke, 1904, 1, c. 

 p. 299 : heludshistana, Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. 

 p. 299 : cypriaca, Ehmeke, 1904, /. c. p. 300 : 

 iiisularis, Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. p. 300 : sor- 

 didtt, Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. p. 300 : subtilis, 

 Ehmeke, 1904, I. c. p. 300. 



[Of. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Eaun. i. pp. 246-248.] 



From Atlantic and the 

 Mediterranean coun- 

 tries throughout 

 Europe and Western 

 Asia to the Lena River 

 and North-eastern 

 Mongoha ; in winter 

 to Sahara, N.W. 

 Himalayas, Zaidam, 

 and the basin of Lower 

 Yang-tse-kiang. 



2. harterti, Whitaker, Bull. B. O. C. xv. pp. 19-20. Northern Tunis 

 (Harterc, t. c. p. 247.) and Algeria. 



3. blakistoni, Stejneger, 1884, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, ii. p. 98; id. Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. xvi. 1892, p. 304. 

 (Bianchi, t. c. pp. xxx, 329.) 



N.E. Siberia from the 

 Lena Eiver to 

 Amoorland ; in winter 

 to the basin of the 

 Lower Yang-tse-kiang. 



4. buxtoni, AUen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Gichiga Eiver, 

 xxi, p. 247 (1895). N.E. Siberia. 



* Dr. Bianchi has recently made a study of the Sky-Larks, and has communicated 

 his conclusions to me for the purposes of the present work. 



