1 92 1.] the Kear East and Tropical East Africa. 657 



between Albert j Edward and Kivu lakes, around tbe 

 Victoria Nyanza, Lake Nakuru, Naivasha, and on the 

 Kedong Escarpment, Nairobi and the Athi plains, and at 

 Nyeri in Kenya Colony. 



A single bird from Taveta very closely resembles cinna- 

 momeiis. Birds from the west of Victoria Nyanza are 

 slightly more cinnamon than birds from east of that lake, 

 but such variation is not sufficiently distinct or constant to 

 warrant a further separation. 



Anthus r. camaroonensis. 



Antlms camaroonensis Shelley, Birds of Africa, ii. 1900, 

 p. 320: Camaroon Mountain, 10,000 ft. 



Three birds from 130 km. west of Lake Tanganyika and 

 at over 6000 feet appear to agree with typical examples. 

 A fourth bird in the Tring Collection from the same locality 

 agrees better with A. r. lacmim. 



This is the darkest race of the species, and looks like a 

 melanistic variety when compared with other races. Upper 

 parts with black centres to the feathers and dark fulvous 

 fringes. Breast thickly spotted with black, throat whitish, 

 abdomen and lower breast fulvous. Wing 92-96, culmen 

 16-17, hind claw 9-10 mm. 



Camaroon Mountain and the hills of central Belgian Congo. 



Anthus r. raalteni. 



Anthus raalteni Temm. MSS. Lichtenstein, Verz. Vog. 

 Sauget. Kaffernl. 1842, p. 13 : South Africa. 



Original description not examined. 



16 specimens examined. 



Very close to cinnamomeus but paler. Not so grey as 

 lacuum. Wing 82-93, culmen 15-17, hind claw 9-13. 



Resident in the Transvaal, Natal, and on the Limpopo 

 River. 



Anthus r. bocagii. 



Anthus bocagii Nicholson, Ibis, 1884, p. 469 : Angola. 

 39 specimens examined. 



