540 MOTACILLID^. 



whitish ; the sides of the body dull saiidy buff, with distinct dark- 

 brown shaft-streaks on the flauks ; under tail-coverts fulvous, with 

 dark brown centres ; edge of the wing and axillary feathers light 

 olive-yellow ; remainder of under wing-coverts dark brown, broadly 

 edged with white ; quills ashy brown below, greyer along the inner 

 web : " iris dark brown ; upper mandible and tip of lower neutral 

 tint ; base of lower mandible purple flesh-colour ; legs and toes light 

 yellowish brown" (Ecid). Total length 6-7 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 3-2, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-95, hind toe 0-45, claw 0-5. 



The male resembles the female in plumage. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 3"2, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa, from Grahamstown to Natal and the 

 Eastern Transvaal. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



6. c? ad. sk. Near Newcastle, Natal, Capt. SavUe Raid [P.]. 



July 9, 1881. 



2. Anthus lineiventris. 



Anthus lineiventris, SunrJev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 

 p. 100 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 104 ; Socage, Orn. Angola, p. 296 

 (1881) ; Sharpe, ed. Laijard's B. S. Afr. p. 540 (1884). 



Cynaedium lineiveutre, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 

 1850, p. 100. 



Anthus obtusipennis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 248 (1850, ex Sund. MSS.) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 250, no. 3625 (1869). 



Anthus angolensis, Socage, Jam. Lisb. 1870, p. 341. 



Hind daw short and very much curved, shorter than hind toe. 

 Tarsus very much longer than hind toe and claw together. 

 Primaries equal, 2, 3, and 4 ; first about equal to iiftb, sometimes 

 a trifle longer ; fifth always longer than innermost secondaries. 

 Feet rather long, nearly reaching to tip of tail (in skin). Primaries 

 emarginate, 2, 3, 4, 5, the last scarcely perceptible. 



Adult male. General colour above dull brown, with lighter brown 

 edgings to the feathers ; head lighter brown, with dark-brown 

 centres to the feathers, producing a streaked appearance ; hind neck 

 more ashy brown with dark-brown centres, appearing streaked like 

 the head ; wings dark brown, all the feathers broadly margined 

 with fulvous, washed with olive-yellow on the least and median 

 wing-coverts, the quills also edged with olive-yellow ; tail dark 

 brown, margined with lighter brown, and with olive-yellow near 

 the base ; outermost feathers brown, with a large triangular wedge 

 of white on the inner web, the outer web white also near the base ; 

 penultimate feather with a smaller triangle of white at the tip of 

 the inner web, the third feather having one smaller still ; lores and 

 a narrow eyebrow dull whitish, the latter tinged with yellow ; in 

 front of the eye a dusky spot ; round the eye a ring of yellowish- 

 white plumes ; ear-coverts dark brown ; cheeks white, with small 

 triangular spots of dark brown ; throat dull white, unspotted ; rest 

 of under surface of body dull white, the throat marked with 



