306 MOTACILMDJE. 



with the outer web and the terminal half of the inner pale rufous ; 

 the penultimate feathers tipped with pale rufous ; supercilium and 

 lower plumage fulvous or sandy buff ; a narrow black moustachial 

 streak ; the breast with small, narrow, but very distinct triangular 

 brown streaks. 



Iris wood-brown ; upper mandible black ; lower mandible fleshy, 

 with the tip blackish ; tarsus reddish fleshy, the feet darker ; claws 

 dark reddish brown ; gape yellow (Davison). 



Length about 8 ; tail 3*1 ; wing 3*7 ; tarsus 1*1 ; bill from gape 

 •9 ; hind claw - 35. 



There has been much confusion regarding the name of this Pipit. 

 It has been identified with two names of lliippell's, but wrongly 

 so. Jerdon figured it as A. similis in his ' Illustrations,' and in 

 the accompanying letterpress confounded it with that species. As 

 there is, so far as I can ascertain, no specific term that applies to 

 the present species, I have much pleasure in connecting this fine 

 Pipit with the name of Miss Gockburn, a lady who has for so many 

 years successfully worked the Nilgiri hills, and whose specimens 

 enrich the Hume Collection. 



Distribution. A permanent resident in the Nilgiri hills, on the 

 higher portions of which this Pipit appears to be not uncommon, 

 frequenting grassy land and occasionally perching on bushes when 

 disturbed. This species appears to extend some distance north, as 

 the Hume Collection contains a specimen obtained at Abmednagar 

 by Dr. Pairbank. 



Habits, 6fc. A nest of this species was found in the Nilgiris by 

 Miss Cockburn in March. It was placed under a shelving rock, 

 and was composed of fine grass. The eggs arc creamy white densely 

 speckled with yellowish brown and purplish grey, and measure 

 about "85 by *65. 



844. Anthus similis. The Brown Rock-Pipit. 



Agrodroma similis, Jierd. Madr. Journ. L. 8. xi, p. 35 (1840). 

 Anthus similis (Jcrd.), Bhjth, Cat. p. 135 (pt.); Horsf. fy M. Cat. i, 



p. 356. 

 Agrodroma sordida (Hupp.), apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 236 ; Hume, 



J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 119; Hume, Cat. no. 604 ; Barnes, 



Birds Bom. p. 246. 

 Agrodroma jerdoni, Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii, p. 241 (1870); Hume 



Sc Henders. Lah. to Yuri: p. 227, pi. xxi ; Hume, N. Sf E. p. 386 ; 



id. 8. F. i, p. 203 ; Butler, 8. F. iii, p. 491. 

 Corydalla griseorufescens, Hume, Ibis, 1870, pp. 286, 400. 

 Anthus jerdoni (Finsch), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 562 ; Oates in 



Humes N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 212. 



Coloration. Upper plumage ashy brown, the feathers narrowly 

 edged with fulvous, and with dark shaft-streaks ; wings brown, 

 broadly edged with bright fulvous ; tail brown or black margined 

 with fulvous, the outermost feather with the outer web and the 

 terminal half of the inner pale rufous; the penultimate pair of 

 feathers tipped with pale rufous ; supercilium and lower plumage 



