562 MOTACILLII)^. 



eentres and blackish shaft-streaks, those near the edge of the wing 

 mottled with dusky bases ; axillaries and under wing-coverts dusky, 

 with sandy margins like the feathers on the sides of the upper 

 breast ; quills dusky brown below, ashy fulvous along the edge of 

 the inner web : " upper mandible black, lower mandible fleshy, tip 

 blackish ; tarsi reddish fleshy, the feet darker, the claws dark 

 reddish brown ; gape yellow ; iris wood-brown " (Davison). Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-G5, wing 3-.55, tail 3-1, tarsus 1. 



There appears to be no specific difference between the true A. 

 sordidiis of Abyssinia and its Indian representative; a pair from 

 Coonoor measure : — 



Total leuetb. 



a. c? 

 i-2 



7-8 

 7'5 



Culmen. 

 in. 

 0-75 

 0-75 



Wing. 



3-7 

 3-4 



Tail. 



3-05 



2-85 



Tarsus. 

 in. 

 1-05 

 1-1 



The specimen from Palestine recorded below is in winter plumage, 

 and was sent by Canon Tristram as A. campestris. It has not been 

 recorded from this locality before. 



Hah. North-eastern Africa as far as the Upper-Nile regions ; 

 Palestine ; and occurring throughout North-western ludia as far as 

 the Nilghiris, but everywhere sparingly. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



c,d. cJ 2 ad. sk. 



e. (S ad. sk. 

 f,ff.d2 ad. sk. 



Eylet, Bogos Land (Esler). 

 Socotra, J?eb. [Prof. Bal- 



fotir). 

 Socotra, March {Prof. Bal- 

 four). 

 Has el Abiad, Palestine. 

 Coonoor, Nilghii-is, Feb. 

 (Davison). 



Sharpe Collection. 

 Brit. Association [P.]. 



Brit. Association [P.]. 



Canon Tristram. 



A. 0. Hume, Esq. [P.]. 



11. Anthus jerdoni. 



Anthus similis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 35 (1840, pt.) ; Gray^ Gen. 



B. i. p. 20r. (1847) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 135 (1849) ; 



Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. p. 350 (1854). 

 Agrodroma sordida (nee Eiijjp.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 236 (1863) : Pe/z 



Ibis, 1868, p. 312 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 57 ; Ball, Utr. F. 1875, 



p. 207 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind dfc. p. 42 (1879). 

 Corydalla richardi (nee V.), Beavan, Ibis, 186«, p. 79 ; Hume, Ibis, 



1869, p. 120. 

 Agrodroma jerdoni, i^msc/).. Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 241 (1870); Hume 



(^ Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 227, pi. xxi. (1873) ; Hume, Nests 



and Egf/s Ind. B. p. 386 (1873) ; Brooks, Sir. F. 1875, p. 252 ; Ball, 



t. c. p. 207 ; Hume S^ Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 491 ; Btdler, Sir. F. 



1877, p. 230; Wardlaiu Bamsaij, Ibis, 1880, p. 61. 

 Corydalla griseorufescens, Hume, Ibis, 1870, pp. 286, 400. 

 Agrodroma griseorufescens, Cock He Marshall, Str. F. 1873, p. 356. 

 Anthus sordidus, Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 237 (1876, nee Biipp.). 



Hind claw stout and curved, about equal to or a little less than 

 the hind toe itself. Tarsus much longer than hind toe and claw 

 combined. Primaries equal, 1, 2, 3 ; fourth scarcely shorter ; fifth 



