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MOTACILLID^. 



distinct eyebrow dull white, as also the feathers below the eye and 

 the fore part of the ear-coverts, the hinder part of the latter dull 

 brown like the sides of the nock ; cheeks, throat, and under surface 

 of body dull white, with a slight tinge of sandy buff on the breast 

 and sides of the body, the latter washed with dull brown ; a malar 

 streak composed of blackish spots ; fore neck and chest minutely 

 marked with triangular black spots ; sides of the breast and flanks 

 streaked with blackish ; thighs pale sandy buff ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts dull smoky white ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 fulvous along the inner web. Total length 5'6 inches, culmen 0*55, 

 wing 2"85, tail 2"25, tarsus 0-85. 



Young female. Much more rufous than the adult and much more 

 strongly mottled, the centres of the feathers black, with pale sandy- 

 rufous margins, especially distinct on the wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers ; penultimate and outer tail-feathers as in the adult, 

 but with a larger wedge-shaped mark of white on the former, and a 

 tinge of sandy buff along the outer webs of both : under surface as 

 in the adult, but the lower flanks and under taU-coverts washed 

 with sandy buff, and having the breast very thickly streaked with 

 black : " legs almost white " (F. D. Oodman). Total length 5'2 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-85, tail 2-15, tarsus 0"85. 



This specimen bears a remark by Mr. Godman to the effect 

 that it "has nested," and he evidently believes it to have been 

 an adult bird. If this were the case, then Madeira would possess 

 two species of Pipits : and certainly in appearance there is a great 

 difference between the two specimens described above. I can, how- 

 ever, trace a tinge of sandy rufous on some of the wing-coverts 

 in the adult birds, and therefore consider the rufous bird to be 

 young. Further information on the sequence of plumage in this 

 species is much to be desired. 



Hah. Madeira and the Canary Islands. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Madeira {Temple Godman). 



c. Ad. sk. Orotava, Teneriffe, April 7 



{F. D. Godman). 



d. $ juv. sk. Madeira, July 1, 1871 {F. D. 



Godman). 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



21. Anthus spipoletta. 



Alauda spinoletta, Lt7in. Syst. Nat. i. p. 288 (1766) ; G7n. Si/st. Nat. 



i. p. 794 (1788). 

 L'Alouette Pipi, Datibent. Fl. Enl. v. pi. 661. fig. 2 ; 3Ionth. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. V. p. .34 (1778). 

 Anthus aquaticus, Beckst. Naturg. DeutscJil. iii. p. 745 (1807) ; 



Temm. Man. Orn. ii. p. 265 (1820) ; Naum. Vog. Beutschl. iii. 



pl.85. figs. 2, 3, 4 (1823) ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 84 (1827) ; 



Gould, B. Fur. ii. pi. 138 (1837) ; Nordm. in Demid. Vog. Fuss. 



Merid. iii. p. 159 (1340) ; Schl. Rev. Grit. p. sxxv (1844) ; Severtz. 



Turkest. Jcvotn. p. 67 (1873) ; Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 70 (1875) ; 



Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 54; Di.mn, Ibis, 1882, p. 571; Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 20 . 



