651 
1921 .*] the Near East and Tropical East Africa. 
sordidus and more heavily spotted. Wing 90-102, culmen 
17-19-5. 
This race appears to extend from southern Abyssinia to 
Kenya Colony, where I collected specimens at Naivasha and 
Nakuru in the Rift Valley, and I have examined others from 
Kisumu on the Victoria Nyanza and the Kedong Escarpment. 
Anthus s. nyassae. 
Antlius nicholsoni nyassce Neumann, J. f. 0. 1906, p. 233 : 
near Songea in Tanganyika Territory, east of the north end 
of Lake Nyasa. 
1 have not examined any specimens from the type-locality. 
Upper parts {teste Neumann) spotted as in nicholsoni and 
longirostris , darker than longirostris but with a different 
and more brownish tone on the plumage. Lower breast and 
abdomen darker than nicholsoni or longirostris , sharply defined 
from the pure white chin and throat. Sides of head darker. 
Wing and culmen smaller. Wing 86-95. 
Inhabits the country north and north-east of Lake Nyasa 
to Uliehe in Tanganyika Territory. 
Anthus s. nicholsoni. 
Anthus nicholsoni Sharpe ed. Layard’s B. S. Afr. .1884, 
p. 536 : South Africa ; no definite loc. 
Many examined from Zululand and Bloemfontein. 
Above paler (yellower) and more uniform than longirostris. 
Below not so fulvous and less heavily spotted. 
Appears to extend throughout Cape Province (Capetown 
and Kingwilliamstoym) to Bloemfontein and the Vaal 
River in the Transvaal, and to Zululand and perhaps 
Damaraland. 
ANTHUS RICHARDI. 
in comparing the richardi- and rufulus-g roups from Asia, 
I was struck by the lack of any definite character dis¬ 
tinguishing them, and am therefore inclined to agree wfith 
Stresemann (Nov. Zool. 1912) and Hartert (Vog. pal. 
