3. ANTHTTS. 555 



edging of huffy whitish running along the outer web and slightly- 

 widening at the tip ; the hind claw is stout and rather curved. 



The shaft of the outer feather is generally darl; sometimes lighter 

 towards the base. The breast is always distinctly streaked with 

 brown, and there are generally indications of a double moustache, 

 the ear-coverts being brown, with a dark-brown streak along their 

 lower edge, skirting the cheeks above, just as the mystacal line 

 does below. 



Hah. South Africa, inhabiting the Cape Colony and extending 

 into Ifatal and probably into Damara Land. 



a. $ ad. sk. Cape Town, May 1 (C. J. Sharpe Collection. 



Andersson). 



b. S ad. sk. Sigonell, Vaal River (T. C. Sharpe Collection. 



Atmore). (Type of species.) 



c. tS ad. sk. Eland's Post, June (T. C. Sharpe Collection. 



AUnore). 



d. (S ad. sk. Kiugwilliamstown, May 24. Capt. Trevelyan [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Near Newcastle, Natal, June. Capt. Savile" G. Raid 



[P.]. 

 /. S ad sk. Rustenbiu-g, Aug. 8 ( W. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Lucas), 

 g. S ad. sk. [Oiidonga] {Andersson). Sharpe Collection. 



9. Anthus pyrrhonotus. 



L'Alouette a dos roux, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 197 (1805) ; Sundev. 

 Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 46 (1858) ^. 



Alaudapyn-houotha, Vieill. N. Diet. d'L£ist. Nat. i. p. 361 (1816, ex 

 Levaill.). 



Anthus leucophrys, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 502 (1818) t; 

 id. Sf Owl. Gal. Ois. i. p. 262 (1823) ; Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 206 

 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 248 (1850) ; Layard, Lbi.<<, 1869, p. 358, 

 1871, p. 228. ^ > > ii- > 



Anthus gouldi, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 27 ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 206 

 (1847J ; IfaHl. Orn. Westafr. p. 73 (1857) ; Gtirney, Lbis, 1860, 

 p. 208; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 162; Tristr. Lbis, 18(;9, p. 437: 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 328 (1869) ; Sharpe, lbis, 1870, p. 461 ; 

 Shelle)/ S,- BueJiley, Lbis, 1872, p. 290 ; Llartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, vii. p. 99 (1881), viii. p. 198 (1883). 



Anthus sordidus (nee Itiipp.), Bianc. S2}ec. Zool. 3L).tamb. fasc. xvi. 

 p. 122 (1865); Grai/, Lland-l. B. i. p. 251, no. 3637 (1809). 



Megalophonus pyrrhonotus, i«?/fOY/, B. S. Afr. p. 211 (1867). 



* Prof. Sumlevall does not consider LeTaillant's plate to be really a repre- 

 sentation of this Pipit ; but I think that the description is fairly correct. More- 

 over Levaillant states that his bird is the "Enkelde Leewerk" of the colonists; 

 and as tliis is the name for the Common Pipit of South Africa, it seems better 

 to adopt it, and to make allowance for the slight inaccuracy of the figure. 



■t As^with many of the older descriptions of Pipits, there is not a character in 

 Vieillot's diagnosis which will enable us to determine the species with certainty. 

 It agrees, however, so well with A. jnjrrhmiotus, that 1 believe it to have been 

 tiiken from a specimen of the latter bird. 



