656 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 
Two birds from Senaar and Eritrea seem to be very near, 
but are slightly less cinnamon. Sclater and Praed (Ibis, 
1918, p. 615) found no birds of this race in the Butler, Chap¬ 
man & Lynes, or Christy collections ; but there are in the 
British Museum examples from Khartoum and the Lado 
Enclave which they assign to this race, and which have 
presumably been compared with Abyssinian birds. 
Wing 88-96, culmen 16-17*5, hind claw 11 mm. 
Apparently inhabits the highlands of Abyssinia, east to 
Ailet near Massowah, and perhaps west to the Sudan. 
Anthus r. annae, subsp. nov. 
A series of 17 birds in the collection of Sir Geoffrey 
Archer from northern Somaliland, 6 of which are in freshly- 
moulted plumage, when compared with cinnamomeus from 
Abyssinia, shows that the Somaliland race almost completely 
lacks the cinnamon tinge of the Abyssinian birds. They are 
a much browner bird. Under parts much whiter. Generally 
smaller in both wing and culmen. Birds from south-western 
Arabia agree in every way. In worn plumage they bleach 
to various shades of dull uniform brown or earth-brown. 
Wing of males 86-89 mm., culmen 16-18 mm. 
Wing of females 78-86 mm., culmen 15-16 mm. 
Hind claw 9-11 mm. 
It is curious that Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1917) and other 
writers should have assigned this distinct race to A. r. cinna¬ 
momeus. 
Type. $ 29. ix. 18, Megago, northern Somaliland, 4000 feet 
(No. 1571, coll. G. Archer). 
Anthus r. lacuum. 
Anthus r. lacuum Meinertzhagen, Bull. B. 0. C. xli. 1920, 
p. 22 : Lake Naivasha in Kenya Colony. 
84 examined. 
Darker, less cinnamon and more fulvous than cinnamomeus. 
Generally a greyer bird. Wing 82-91, 95, 99,100 ; cuhnen 
15-17, 18 ; hind claw 9-12*5 mm. 
Appears to be a resident from the coast at Bagomoyo 
(Tanganyika Territory) to the north end of Lake Tanganyika, 
