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mottled with brown and purplish-grey; another o^g is cream- 

 coloured, densely mottled with p;ile reddish-brown and purplish-grey ; 

 and a fifth is pale buff, densely mottled with pale brown. They 

 measure respectively : So by '62 ; -88 by '61 ; -8 by '6 ; "8 by 62 ; 

 •82 by -57. 



4. Neddivatam, Nilgliiri Kills, CjOO Hume Cull. 



feet, Mav ( If. Davison). 

 1. Nilfihiri Hills. Hume Coll. 



Antlius brachyuras, Sundev. 



(Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Anthus brachvuius, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 327 ; Sliaiye, ed. Layaril, 

 Birds S. Africa, p. 5:39 (1875-84); id., Cut. Birds B. M. x. p. 551 

 (1885) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 248 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds 

 Afr. ii. p. 303 (1900); Shnrpe, Hand-l. v. p. 145 (1906J. 



The eggs of the Cape Short-tailed Pipit are of a blunt oval shape 

 and possess very little gloss. They are white, freckled with pale 

 brown and grey. The markings form an irregular zone round the 

 broad end of the egg and are sparingly distiibuted elsewhere. 

 Three examples measure respectively : -^b by -52 ; '68 bv '52 ; -67 

 by -52. 



3. Natal. Dr. Gueiiizius [C.]. 



Antbus vaalensis, Shdleij. 



(Plate V. fig. 6.) 



Aiitlius gouldi, Gtirneif, Ibis, 1860, p. 208. 



Antlius leiicophrvs, Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 368. 



Autluis pviThouotus, Sharpe {tiec Vieill.), ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, 



p. 537 (lb75-84) [pt.] ; Bvtler, Feilden ^- Beid, Zool. 1882, p", 336; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 555 (1885) [pt.] ; Stark, Fauna 



S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 250 (1900) [pt.]. 

 Antlius vaalensis, SJielley, Birds Afr. ii. p. 311 (1900) ; Sharjye, Hand-l. 



v. p. 146 (190U). 



Eggs of the Tawny Plain-backed Pipit vary from an ordinary, 

 somewhat pointed oval shape to a broad, blunt oval, and are very 

 slightly glossy. They are whitish or cream-coloured, more or les3 

 densely speckled and mottled all over, or sometimes blotched, with 

 brown and underlying lavender. Two eggs from Lindley differ in 

 having all the surface-markings of a light rusty-brown or sienna. 

 Examples measure from '78 to -bo in length, and from -oS to '67 

 in breadth. 



7. Tr.insvaal (7'. .^/''f-"' Tristram Col/.). Crowley Eequest. 



3. 14-Streanis, Vaal liiver, Nov. Ii. B. Woosnam, E.=q. [CI. 



2. Lindlev, O.R.C, 22nd Dec. M»yn- 11. Sparrow [P.]. 



1. Newcastle, Natal, 10th Oct. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



3. Newcastle, lOlh Nov. (i?.^.^?«//«-.) Crowley Bequest. 



