582 MOTACILITDJE. 



itself. Tarsus equal to hiud toe and claw combined. Primaries 

 equal, 1, 2, 3, 4. Primaries emarjjinatcd, 2, 3, 4 ; Jlfth primary 

 shorter than secondaries, which are nearly equal to long primaries. 

 Feet, in skin, not reaching beyond half of the tail. 



Foot of Anihis pratensis. 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above olive- 

 brown, all the feathers broadly centred with black, some of the 

 mantle-feathers edged with whity brown ; lower back and rump 

 more uniform olive-brown, with obscure blackish centres to the 

 feathers ; upper tail-coverts olive-brown, with longitudinal dusky 

 blackish centres and paler olive margins ; lesser vsdug-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater series dusky brown, edged with olive- 

 brown or ashy olive, and tipped with paler sandy buff, inclining to 

 whitish on the inner coverts of both series : bastard- wing blackish ; 

 primary-coverts and quills dark brown, edged with ashy olive, paler 

 on the secondaries, the innermost of which are clearer olive-brown 

 on their edges, the first primary white along the edge of the outer 

 web ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with olive, the outer feather 

 white, smoky brown towards the end of the outer web, the inner web 

 with an oblique mark of dark brown, the penultimate feather with 

 a large wedge-shaped spot of white at the tip of the inner web ; 

 head like the back, and streaked in the same manner, but somewhat 

 more narrowly ; the dark streaks less distinct on the hind neck, 

 which is more dusky ; eyelid and a streak over the ej^e pale sandy 

 buff ; ear-coverts dark olive-bro'\\Ti : feathers below the eye blackish ; 

 cheeks pale sand}' buff, extending back on to the sides of the neck, 

 separated from the throat by a black malar streak ; throat uniform 

 tawny buff; breast also tawny buff, thickly streaked with broad 

 triangular spots of black, becoming more narrowly streaked on the 

 lower breast : sides of the body and flanks washed with olive and 

 broadly streaked with black ; abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 isabelline white ; thighs sandy buff ; axillaries smoky brown, washed 

 with olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts isabelline, mottled with dusky 

 bases near the edge of the wing, which is more strongly shaded with 

 olive-yeUow than the rest of the under wing-coverts ; lower primary- 



