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MOTACILLIDiE. 



collar of the adult is not assumed at the first moult, the fore neck 

 being brownish mottled with streaks of black ; there is also no trace 

 of the white streaks near the black collar : these are, however, 

 evident enough in an adult male, procured by Mr. Ayres on the 12th 

 of March, and which has nearly completed its moult ; the black 

 collar is also perfectly developed as in summer. A male obtained as 

 late as the 23rd of April has not quite completed its moult. 

 Hah. The whole of the Ethiopian Eegion. 



a. Ad. hiem. sk. 

 6. [ 5 ] ad. ffistiv. sk. 



e. S ad. hiem. sk. 

 (?. [ 2 ] ad. aestiv. sk. 

 e. [ cj ] ad. aestiv. sk. 

 /. [cJjad.sk. 

 </. c? ad. SBstiv. sk. 

 h. 2 ad. ; i. S juv. 



hiem. sk. 

 k, I. (S ad.; m. S 



juv. sk. 

 n. (S ad. sk. 



0,2). cJ 2 ad. sk. 



q. Ad. sestiv. sk. 

 r. Ad. hiem. sk. 

 s. (S ad. hiem. sk. 



t. Ad. hiem. sk. 



River Gambia. 

 Sea-shore near Elmina, 

 April {H. F. Blissett). 

 Shonga, River Niger. 

 Gaboon (DuChaiUu). 

 Angola. 

 Natal. 



Natal (T. Ayres). 

 Pinetown, Natal, Mav 



{T. L. Ayres). 

 Pinetown, March (T. 



Sharpe Collection. 

 Sharpe Collection. 



W. A. Forbes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sharpe Collection. 

 J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 

 T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



_ L. A.). 

 Pinetown, 



L. A.). 

 Pinetown, 



L. A.). 

 Zambesi {Meller). 

 Dar-es-Salaam, Zambesi, 

 Bombo, near Mombasa, 



Aug. 1877. 

 Mombasa. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 April (T. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 June (T. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Shai-pe Collection. 

 Messrs. Moir [C.]. 

 J. M. Hildebrandt [C.]. 



Rev. A. Fowell Buxton 



[P.]. 



4. Macronyx amelise. 



Macronyx amelia3, De Tarragon, Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 452 ; Gray 8f 

 Mitch. Gen. B. i. pi 54 (1848) ; Bp. Cunsp.^ i. p. 247 (1850) ; 

 Gurnei/, Ibis, 1862, p. 28 ; Finscli ij- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 278, 

 note (1870) ; Holub 8f Von Pet. Beitr. Orn. Sicdafr. p. 87 (1882) ; 

 Sharj}e, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 533 (1884). 



Anthus amelia?, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 206 (1848) ; Lai/nrd, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 124 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 252, no. 3664 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above sandy buff, all the feathers black in 

 the centre, imparting a streaked appearance ; the head and hind 

 neck less plainly streaked, especially the latter, the sides of the neck 

 being uniform fulvous, with a black collar running down the sides 

 of the neck to the fore neck ; lores whitish ; over the eye a rather 

 broad streak of sandy buff ; sides of face fulvous, deepening into 

 rich sandy buff on the hinder ear-coverts ; wing-coverts blackish, 

 edged with sandy buff, the outermost slightly washed with pink 

 like the margins of the wing, the innermost of the least series 

 rather broadly edged with white, forming a tolerably distinct 

 shoulder-patch ; the primary-coverts edged with sandy buff, inclining 



