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A. nicholsoni, but differs in having the crown and back quite uniform, 

 with no darker centres to the feathers. The species is founded 

 on specimens obtained in Northern Natal, near Newcastle, and the 

 Ingagane River. Two Pipits from near Kimberley, and from the 

 Molopo River, in the Mafeking district, respectively, preserved in 

 the South African Museum, seem to be referable to this new species. 

 Reichenow doss not recognise this new species ; he considers it 

 identical with A. leucoplirys (i.e., A. pyrrlionotus). 



144. ANTHUS PYRRHONOTUS (Vieill.). 



Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 316) substitutes the name Uucophys, 

 also of Vieillot for this species. 



147. MOTACILLA VIDUA Sundev. 

 147A. MOTACILLA VAILLANTI Cab. 



Shelley finds (B. Afr. ii. p. 266) that there are two distinct 

 species confounded under the first of these two names, the widely- 

 spread species for which he retains Sundevall's name, and another 

 species distinguished by the possession of black or dusky grey 

 instead of white flanks. The differences between the two species 

 are clearly shown by a coloured plate. The second species, which 

 he names M. nigncotis, is found in the basins of the Orange and 

 Limpopo Rivers. Reichenow (Vog. Afr. iii. p. 299) follows Shelley, 

 but refers the black-flanked form to Hotacilla vaillanti of Cabanis. 

 This name is doubtless founded on Levaillant's plate (Ois. 

 d'Afr. iv. pi. 178) which is drawn from the same form, while the 

 old author's description states that the flanks are white, and is 

 doubtless referable to M. vidua. 



In the South African Museum there are three examples from 

 Upington, on the Orange River, obtained by Bradshaw, and one 

 from Colesberg, also near the Orange River, collected by Ortlepp. 

 These are undoubtedly 31. vaillanti. A pair from Port St. John's 

 in Pondoland, on the other hand, are undoubted examples of 

 J/. cithia. Recently I secured a pair of Pied Wagtails on the 

 Upper Zambesi, above the Victoria Falls. As their flanks are 

 dark grey, these appear to me to be intermediate forms, and it 

 will perhaps be best to consider J/. vaillanti as only a strongly 

 marked subspecies. 



158A. CINNYBIS MICRORHYNCHUS Shelley. 



This bird (Shelley, B. Afr. ii. p. 55), a smaller edition of 

 C. mariqucnsis, with a shorter bill and much less coppery gloss, 



