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30. Anthus gustavi. 



Anthus arboreus, var., Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 3o0 ; Finsch, Neu- 

 Gumea, p. 167 (1865). 



Anthus gustavi, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p 90 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 251, no. 3638 (1869) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 442 ; Brilggem. 

 Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 67 (1876) ; Shavpe, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. 2nd ser. Zool. i. p. .338 (1876) ; Seehohm, Ibis, 1877, pp. 129, 258, 

 1878, p. 341 ; Tiveedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 430 ; Finsch, Reis. West- 

 Sibir. p. 69 (1879) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 262 ; Homeyer^ Tancre, 

 MT. orn. Ver. JVien, 1883, p. 86 ; Dybowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1883, p. 361. 



Anthus (Agi'odroma) gustavi, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 273. 



Anthus batchianensis. Gray. Hand-l. B. i. p. 251, no. 3642 (1869). 



Corydalla gustavi, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 366; Waldm, Trans. 

 Z. S. viii. p. 117 (1872) ; Meyer, J. f. 0. 1873, p. 405; DavidSr Oust. 

 Ois. Chine, p. 309 (1877) ; Salvad. Ann. Miis. Civic. Genov. xvi, 

 p. 191 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 4.32 (1881). 



Anthus seebohmi. Dresser, B. Bur. iii. p. 295, pi. 134 (1875) ; 

 Seebohm S,- Harvie Brown, Ibis, 1876, pp. 120, 180 ; Brooks, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 501 ; Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 58 ; Seebohm, t. c. p. 128. 



Hind claw moderately long and curved, about equal to hind toe. 

 Tarsus a little longer than hind toe and claw combined. Primaries 

 suhequal, 1, 2, 3 ; fourth much shorter than third ; fifth primary 

 slightly shorter than long secondaries, which do not equal the 

 longest primaries. Primaries emarginate, 2, 3, the fourth almost 

 imperceptibly. 



Adult male in hreeding-^yhimarje. General colour above pale sandy 

 brown, mottled with black centres to the feathers, the mesial streaks 

 being narrower on the head, plainer on the hind neck, which is 

 paler, and most pronounced on the mantle and back, where the black 

 occupies the greater part of the feathers, which are conspicuously 

 white on the outer webs of many of them ; lower back and rump 

 sandy brown, with blackish centres to the feathers, but in general 

 aspect more uniform and slightly tinged with olive ; upper tail- 

 coverts dark brown, with paler-brown edges ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back, with blackish centres ; median coverts black, con- 

 spicuously edged and tipped with white ; greater series blackish, 

 edged with paler brown ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts and 

 quills brown, margined with paler brown, inclining to whity brown 

 on the inner secondaries, the innermost of the latter being blackish; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, edged with paler brown, the outer 

 feather smoky brown, whiter along the outer web and across the 

 tip of the inner web, which is obliquely dark brown near the base ; 

 the penultimate feather dark brown, mottled with pale brown on the 

 inner web, which is whiter at the tip ; lores and a distinct eyebrow 

 white, the latter narrowly streaked with blackish ; ear-coverts pale 

 rufescent brown, whiter below the ej-e ; sides of neck pale whitish, 

 streaked with blackish centres to the feathers ; cheeks white, thickly 

 mottled with black on their hinder parts, and separated from the 

 throat by an obsolete blackish line ; entire throat white, slightly 

 tinged with yellow towards the fore neck, the latter and the breast 



