7. MACEONTX. 625 



Young. Much blacker than the adult, the feathers narrowly fringed 

 with wintj' hrowu ; throat isabellino, with a few orange feathers 

 here and there, the black gorget of the adult represented only by a 

 few black spots ; centre of breast and abdomen pale yellow ; sides 

 of body isabelline brown, with dark-brown streaks on the lower 

 flanks. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. 



b. Ad. sk. Cape Colony. Mrs. Butler [P.]. 



c. (Z. A.d. sk. Cape Colony (Za^«/-f7). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e. [2]ad. sk. Cape Colony (Znyarf/). Sharpe Collection. 

 /. 5 ad. sk. Cape Town, April 24 (C. Sharpe Collection. 



J. Andersson). 



g. Juv. sk. Grahamstown (Layard). Sharpe Collection. 



h. 5 ad. sk. KingrwiUiamstown, Jime 4 Capt. Trevelyan [0.]. 



(C. Neiuby). 



i. Ad. sk. S.E. Africa. John Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Ad. sk. Natal. T. Ayi-es, Esq. [C.J. 



I, m. cJ ad. sk. Pinetown, Natal {T. L. Sharpe Collection. 



Ayres). 

 n, 0. Ad. sk. Between Ladysmith and New- W. E. and C. G. Dates, 



castle, May {F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



p, q- 6 ; '■) *'• $ Transvaal (T. Ayres). Shai-pe Collection, 

 ad. sk. 



2. Macronyx flavicollis. 



Macronyx flavicoUis, Riipp. Neue Wirb., Voy. p. 102, Taf. 38. fig. 2 

 (1835) ; id. Sysf. Ueberf. p. 79 (1845J ; Jlorsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. E.L 

 Co. Mm. i. p. 358 (1854) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 44 (1856) ; 

 id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 330 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss. 

 p. 384 (1870) ; 'Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 324 (1870) ; id. Sf Hartl. 

 Vog. Ostafr. p. 278, note (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. 

 p. xciii (1*871). 



MacronjT; capensis, pt., Bp. Consp. i. p. 247 (1850). 



Anthus flavicollis, Gray, Hatid-l. B. i. p. 252, no. 3663 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above tawny buff, the feathers black in the 

 centre, edged with ochraceous all round ; crown of head black, with 

 only slightly iuchcated ochraceous edges to a few of the feathers : 

 hind neck duU ochraceous buff, with dusky-brown centres to the 

 feathers ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown with ashy margins, some 

 of the innermost edged with dull whitish, the outermost washed 

 with yeUow like the edge of the wing ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts also washed with yellow ; median and greater coverts edged 

 with light tawny, shading off into white towards the tips ; quiUs 

 dark brown, the primaries edged with fulvous, the inner ones washed 

 externally -with yellow, the secondaries externally fawn-buff, shading 

 off into whitish towards the end of the feather ; tail-feathei's dark 

 brown with fulvous edgings, the outermost feather yeUow along 

 the outer web and for the terminal third of the imier web, the next 

 three with a large spot of white towards the tips of the inner web, 



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