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trees and bushes which are favourites of the Sun-birds, and 

 hope to be able to name them in due course. 



109. AXTHOTHREPTES HYPODILA. 



Anthothreptes hypodila (Jard.) ; Shelley, B. Africa, ii. 

 p. 151 (1900). 



Mission Creek, Rotifunk, April 1902. Bill, feet, and claws 

 black. 



Bo : February, March, July, August, and September 1904. 



A series of some twenty skins was obtained. This bird 

 is quite common, and usually flits about in parties of from 

 four to six. 



110. MOTACILLA FI.VVA. 



Motacilla flava Linn.: Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 286 (1900). 



Bo : January, September, and October 1904. Iris black ; 

 bill, feet, and claws very dark slate-coloured. 



This Wagtail only remains here for the dry season, putting 

 in its appearance at the close of the rains in September. 



111. ANTHUS TRIVIALIS. 



Anthus trivialis (Linn.) ; Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 299 

 (1900). 



Bo, February 1904. Upper mandible brown ; lower man- 

 dible, feet, and claws flesh-coloured. 



112. Anthus pyrrhonotus. 



Anthus pyrrlionotus Vieill. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. x. p. 555 

 (1885). 



Anthus gouldi Fraser; Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 307 (1900). 

 Bo, September 1904. 



113. Macronyx croceus. 



Macronyx croceus (Vieill.) ; Reichen. Vog. Afrikas, iii. 

 p. 321 (1904). 



Bo : January, February, September, and October. 



Not numerous anywhere, but one or two pairs may 

 generally be found in certain places which are to some extent 

 less overgrown with bush than others. They frequently perch 

 on the upper twigs of the trees thirty or forty feet high, and 

 I have seen them sitting on the telegraph-wires by the railway- 

 line. 



