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ANTHUS RUFOGULARIS Brehin 



Anthus rufogularis Beehm, Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte europaischen Vogel, 



vol. 2, p. 963, 1824: Nubia, Egypt, and southern Europe. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 male, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 8, 1912. 



1 male, Alaltu, Ethiopia, January 17, 1912. 



1 male, 3 females, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 14-15, 1912. 



1 male, Cofali, Ethiopia, March 2, 1912. 



2 females, southeast of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 22, 1912. 



The European red-throated pipit is a regular and common mi- 

 grant and, winter visitor in Ethiopia and Kenya Colony as well as 

 in the Sudan and Uganda. Von Heuglin found it common in various 

 parts of Nubia and Ethiopia; many ornithologists have recorded it 

 from Kenya Colony ; and the species has been noted abundantly along 

 the Nile from lower Egj^pt to Uganda. 



Although the birds begin to arrive in October, the inception of the 

 molt is usually delayed until January or February and sometimes even 

 later. Thus, of the present series, some of the last birds taken (as 

 well as the earliest one) are still in winter plumage, some are in molt, 

 and some are almost finished molting. Lynes ® found that in Darf ur 

 the birds arriving from the north in October and November were in 

 worn plumage; "some of these began to show a few red throat 

 feathers early in November, and the wintering juveniles evidently 

 acquired their first summer red throats gradually during the winter, 

 while the adults grew theirs in April and May, just before, or with, 

 departure." 



TMETOTHYLACUS TENELLUS (Cabanis) 



Macronix tenellus Cabanis, Journ. fxir Orn., 1878, pp. 205, 220: Teita, Kenya 



Colony. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 adult male, south end Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, July 8, 1912. 



4 immature males, 2 adult females, Indunumara Mountains, Kenya Colony, 

 July 14, 1912. 



5 adult males, 5 adult females, 1 immature male. Northern Guaso Nyiro 

 River, Kenya Colony, July 31-August 1, 1912. 



2 adult females, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, August 5-7, 1912. 



This extraordinary bird, thought by Madarasz ^ entirely to contra- 

 dict the currently recognized characters of the Passeriformes, is found 

 in eastern Africa from the Pangani River, in northern Tanganyika 

 Territory, north through Kenj^a Colony to the Ogaden area of Ethi- 

 opian Somaliland, and to British Somaliland. 



When he redescribed this pipit as Charadriola singularis, Madarasz 

 was under the impression that the collector, Coloman Katona, saw 



'Ibis, 1925, p. 708. 



»Ann. Mus. Nat. Hungar., 1904, p. 400. 



