30 Mr. C. F. M. Swynncrton on the 



reminds one of the action of the legs in swimming, suddenly 

 spreading its wings out straight and stiff to their fullest 

 extent and repeating this stroke many times in succession, 

 sometimes for a whole flight. 



Four birds gave an average of 8' j1 inches in the flesh, 

 ranging from 8" 12 to 9"1. 



51. Anthus LiNEiVENTiiis. Stripc-bellicd Pipit. 



Rh. Like the Rock-Thrushes, this Pipit is comparatively 

 plentiful in the " Munzhanshe " ( Uapacd) groves which 

 cover the northern shaly slopes of Chirinda, and resembles 

 them further in the fact that it is usually found feeding on 

 the ground and flies straight up into the nearest tree on being 

 disturbed. Iris rather light umber-brown ; upper mandible 

 of bill sepia or vandyk-brown, lower pale grey, sometimes 

 tinged with pink ; feet pale brownish or purplish pink. Two 

 males measured 6*75 and 7 inches, respectively, in the flesh. 



52. Anthus trivialis. Tree-Pipit. 



Rh. A regular summer visitor. It had not arrived on 

 November 15th, when I left home; but I found it to be 

 very plentiful in the neighbourhood of Chirinda on my 

 return thither from Beira on January 10th of last year, 

 though I had seen none in the low veld. The birds were 

 mostly in pairs, running about over the cultivated ground 

 in search of insects and frequently taking to my Eucalypt 

 shelter-belts, where, on one occasion, I found a pair noisily 

 mobbing a green tree-snake, in company with Pycnonotus 

 layardi, Cinnyris chalybaus, and other small birds. They left 

 us in March. These Pipits are easily trapped in cultivated 

 ground by means of dead-falls baited with cockchafer-larvae. 

 Five birds, measured in the flesh, gave an average of 6Q9 

 inches, maximum and minimum 6*8 and 6'5 respectively. 



53. Anthus rufulus. Lesser Tawny Pipit. 



Rh. Common, usually in pairs, in cultivated ground 

 throughout the high veld of Northern and Southern Mel- 

 setter. I found it in Melsetter itself in September, and in 

 the same month near the top of Mount Pene (7000 ft.), where 



