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Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 
This excellent race from eastern Persia is easily recognized 
from cantarella or cinerascens by its paler and redder colour; 
in fact it is merely a pale but large A. a. arvensis, and is 
not a grey but a red bird in autumn plumage. I shot a 
male at the south end of the Sea of Galilee on 3. iii. with a 
wing of 119 mm. Four birds in the Tring Collection from 
eastern Persia have wings from 115 to 122 mm. It is the 
exception to find cinerascens or cantarella with wings o\er 
115 mm. 
Alauda arvensis cantarella. 
Alauda cantarella Bonaparte, 1832 : Central Italy. 
Similar to Alauda a. arvensis , but lacks the redder feather 
edgings on the upper parts of the latter and is also much 
whiter below. The feather edgings are, however, browner 
(not so grey) as in cinerascens. 
To this race I can only assign birds from Italy, Sardinia, 
Corsica, and Sicily. I have not seen typical birds from 
elsewhere. I have not examined breeding birds from Greece 
or the Balkans. Stresemann (Avif. Macedon. p. 66) refers 
all Balkan birds to this race, but as he has not compared his 
specimens with birds from the typical locality, his remarks 
are not very helpful. 
Alauda arvensis arvensis L. 
The typical race of the Sky-Lark seems to be confined in 
its breeding haunts to the British Islands, Scandinavia, 
Denmark, and central Europe generally. 
Algernon alaudipes alaudipes (Desf.). 
I obtained a male in September in the Syrian Desert 
40 miles east of Damascus, which appears to be a new 
locality. It is identical with Egyptian and Saharan birds. 
I found this bird common in western Egypt about Mersa 
Matruh, Soilum, and on the desert between Siwa and Solium 
in January. 
It is also a locally common resident in northern Sinai 
west to the Suez Canal and east to El Arish, 
