550 MOTACniilD^. 



f. Var.. sk N.W.Himalayas. Capt.StackliousePinwill 



^ fp.]. 



q. Ad. sk. Himalayas. 



'/j. Ad. sk. Nepal. B.H.Hodo-f<on,Esq.[P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Nepal (Hodggon). India INluseum. 



6. Anthus nilghiriensis. 



Anthus rufescens, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 34 (1840, wee Temm). ^ 

 Antbus montanus {nee Koch), Bli/th, J. A. S. Bern/, xvi. p. 435 (1847, 



ex Jerd. MSS.); id. Cat. />'.' .l/".s. As. Soc. p. 136 (1849); £p. 



Consp. i. p. 248 (1850) : Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 251, no. 3643 



(1869) ; mime, Sir. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 461 ; id. Sir. F. 1879, 



p. 103 ; Davison, Sfr. F. 1883, p. 397. 

 Pipastes montanuB, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 230 (1863) ; Bbith, Ibis, 



18(?)7, p. 312 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 383 (1873) ; Fairb. 



Sir. F. 1877, p. 407. 

 Anthus trivialis, pt., Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 309 (1874). 



Foot of Anthus nilgkirieiisis. 



Hind daw stout and strongly curved, much shorter than the hind 

 toe. Tarsus considerably longer than the hind toe and claw com- 

 bined. Primaries equal, 2, 4 ; tliird a trifle longer, Jirst a trifle 

 shorter, than second ; fifth shorter than first, and equal iu length 

 to long secondaries. Feet reaching to three fourths of length of 

 tail (in skin). Primaries ernarginate, 2, 3, 4, 5, the last quite distinct. 

 Sometimes the long secondaries exceed the tips of the primaries in 

 the closed wing. 



Adult male. General colour above light sandy buff, paler on the 

 edges of the feathers of the mantle, the whole upper surface broadly 

 streaked with black down the centre of the feathers, whicli have a 

 slight tinge of olive. Rump more uniform, the black centres to the 

 feathers less distinct ; lesser wing-coverts and scapulars olive-brown, 

 with indistinct blackish centres to the feathers ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, externally sandy brown, paler at the end ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts blackish, naiTowly edged with ashy ful- 

 vous ; quills blackish, edged with sandy buff, washed with olive, 

 the edges to the inner secondaries much paler, the first primary 



