- 202 — 



The under tail-coverts of these 4 specimens are not as Reich c- 

 now (op. cit) writes: pale yellowish brown, but brownish black 

 with wide rusty-brown edges. 



Irides dark-brown; upper mandible brownish grey, lower 

 mandible greyish blue (as a rule with dark tip); legs brownish 

 yellow. 



Macronyx ameliae wintoni Sharpe. — Rchw. III. p. 325. 



3 (55 ad. 11. 5.; 1 (5 ad. 6. 8.; 1 (5 juv. 6. 8. Eldoret. 



This rare Pipit occurred in the open grass country south 

 of Eldoret where a little brook flowed by, forming rather large, 

 swampy areas. On the route up to Elgon 3 specimens were shot 

 and on the return journey two more in about the same spot. 



According to Nicholson (Manch. Mem., vol. LIII, 1909, 

 No. 24) the race was known only from three places: "in the 

 Rift Valley in the vicinity of Lake Naiwasha, the eastern side 

 of the Guashangishu plateau and in the Nyanza Valley in the 

 vicinity of Kitotos" (trom Ibis, 1905, p. 103, by Jackson). 

 But Neumann (Journ. f. Orn., 1900, p. 290) mentions that he 

 shot it in different places in late German East Africa. 



Neave (Ibis, 1910, p. 240) has found this form in N. E. 

 Rhodesia by the Kahmgwisi River, and south of it on Chisinga 

 Plateau and east of Bangweolo Lake by Lake Young, where it 

 was not uncommon. 



v. Someren (Ibis, 1916, p. 433) has seen it at Nakuru. 

 In his "Prov. Check-list of the Birds of B. E. A. and Uganda", 

 1917, p. 8, the same writer includes both ameliae and wintoni 

 from East Africa, although, according to Nicholson (op. cit.) 

 the most northern habitats for the former lie just south of the 

 Zambesi. 



The measurement of the wing given by Reich enow (op. 

 cit.) does not fully agree with all the 5 specimens- lying before 

 me, and it thus seems to me as if this form was a very weak 

 and uncertain one, which also Shelley (B. Africa, vol. 3, 1902, 

 p. 12) has expressed. 



Wing, culmen, tarsus, 



87, 88, 90, 92 mm. 14 mm. 28 — 29 mm. cTcT ad. 

 87 mm. 24 mm. 29 mm. cf ad. 



For wintoni the length of wing should be 85—88 mm., 

 culmen 14 mm. but for ameliae 95 mm. (according to Shelley 

 87 mm. in birds from Natal) and 16 mm. (according to Reiche- 

 now). Sjostedt (Wissensch. Erg. Schw. Zool. Exp. Kilima- 

 njaro-Meru, 1905-1906, Stockholm 1910, p. 136) gives 92 mm. 

 as the wing-measurement of cf and 84 mm. of 9 for specimens 

 from the Kilimandjaro plains. 



