646 
Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 
Mediterranean Islands (Balearics, Corsica, and Crete), 
Algeria, and Morocco. Common on passage in Palestine, 
Egypt, and Algeria. Common in winter in north Somali¬ 
land and the Sudan, straggling to Kenya Colony. 
Anthus c. griseus Nicoll, Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, p. 25 : 
Turkestan. 
Agrodroma campestris minor (nee Brehm), R. Blasius, 
1900 : Etawah, N.W. Indin. 
30 examined, including the type. 
Greyish above compared with the typical race and generally 
smaller. About 50 per cent, are unspotted. Wing 82-90, 
94, 95. Culmen 16-18. A female in Witherby’s collection, 
shot from the nest near Peshawar in north-western India 
by Harington, is undoubtedly this form, and appears to be a 
dwarf, having a wing of only 77 mm. and a culmen of 17 mm. 
Breeds in north-western India (Peshawar), Turkestan, 
eastern Persia, Transcaspia, and perhaps Egypt. I obtained 
an adult and four young birds near Helouan in Egypt on 9. xi. 
and 15. xi. ; obviously a family party ns I saw no others. 
Nicoll has obtained others in autumn and winter from Egypt. 
It also occurs in winter in Seistan, northern India, United 
Provinces, Rajputana, Central India, and south to the 
Bombay Presidency. 
ANTHUS SORDIDUS. 
Head and back of adults in fresh autumn plumage more 
or less indistinctly blotched or streaked. In worn plumage 
the upper parts tend to become more uniform. General 
colour above brown, without any of the olive tinge which 
occurs in the leucophry5 -group. Breast distinctly marked 
with diffused spotting in all forms, but in Persia and Pales¬ 
tine one occasionally finds birds with unspotted breasts. 
1 st to 4th primaries usually almost equal. 
The outer web of the penultimate tail-feather is black- 
brown with a paler fringe. Outer tail-feather never with 
pure white on it, but yellowish-buff or brown to yellowish- 
white. 
