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1921 .] of Tunisia and Algeria. 
Algerian bird and required a new name, and they proposed 
to call it G. c. carthaginis (Klein. & Hilg. Orn. Mon. 1905, 
p. 188: Tunis). In this' they seem to have been quite 
correct. 
The bird which Whitaker referred to as arenicola they 
apparently split up, naming those from Gabes to Gafsa 
Galerida cristata gafsce (Orn. Mon. 1904, p. 189 : Seggi), 
while the birds from the region of the Chott el Djerid (Tozer, 
Douz, Kebilli) they named Galerida cristata reichenowi (Orn. 
Mon. 1905, p. 189 : Kebilli). Hilgert, in his Catalogue of 
the Erlanger Collection, 1908, pp. 102-104, again reviews 
these Larks and upholds the three names. 
Hartert, in his Yog. Pal. Faun. vol. i. p. xxvi, footnote, 
states that he considers both gafsce and reichenowi to be 
synonyms of arenicola , which he evidently believes to 
range from the line El Kantara-Touggourt-Bledet-Ahmar 
in Algeria eastwards through the deserts of southern Tunisia. 
The British Museum is singularly deficient in Crested 
Larks from Tunisia and Algeria, but the few we have at our 
disposal does not prove Hartert to be wrong 1 It certainly 
appears to me that the long-billed Crested Larks from the 
extreme south-east corner of Tunisia (a district cut off from 
the rest of the desert country by a range of mountains—the 
Djebel Matmata) is distinct and requires a name, but as we 
have not sufficient material from this region. I shall refrain 
from giving it one for the present. Birds from Tatahouine 
appear to be much more rufescent in colouring than either 
so-called reichenowi or gafsce. 
Of the short-billed group Whitaker recognised four forms 
in Tunisia : (a) Galerida tlieklce major, (b) G. t. superflua, 
(c) G. t. deichleri , (d) G. t. carolince. 
Three of these names still hold good, but the bird which 
inhabits the north of the Regency extending to the Atlas 
Mts. which Whitaker called G. t. major , we now know by 
the name of G. t. harterti —the same form which is found 
in the north of Algeria. Mr. Whitaker notes that the bird 
found at the higher elevations is still darker than his major , 
so that there may be yet another form. 
