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and then flying round in wide circles and constantly darting 

 upward with a rapid quivering of the wings, making a loud 

 "drumming" noise like a toy police-rattle. It came as a 

 surprise to me to meet with this bird so far away from 

 the coast, hut it was evidently fairly plentiful, though con- 

 fined to a very restricted area. 



No. 837. S ad. Kakamega, Kavirondo, Feb. 8, 1898. 

 Feet brownish flesh-colour. 



No. 954. $ ad. Nandi, April 9, 1898. 



No. 955. S j'iv- Nandi, April 9, 1898. Iris crimson- 

 orange ; bill brown, lower mandible pinky white ; feet dusky 

 white. 



98. AnTHUS LATISTR7ATUS, Sp. n. 



A. similis A. pyrrhonoto atque A. sordido, sed notaei plumis 



medialiter nigro late striatis, et hypochondriis late nigro 



striolatis distinguendus. Long. tot. 65 poll., culm. 0"7, 



alte 3'55, caudse 2"4, tarsi 1*1. 



No. 19. 5 . Kavirondo, Nov. 12, 1894. Iris brown ; bill 



duskv brown, with the tips of the lower mandible darker, 



the base yellow ; feet pale brown, the toes dusky brown. 



[This Pipit, for which Mr. Jackson proposes the name of 

 latistriatus, certainly seems to be different from A. sordidus, 

 A. pyrrhonotus, and all the dark-coloured African Pipits, by 

 reason of its black mottled upper surface and the very 

 distinct broad black centres to the flank-feathers. The outer 

 tail-feather is smoky brown, with a whity-brown shaft 

 and an oblique blackish mark on the inner web ; there is a 

 light smoky-brown wedge-shaped mark on the jaenultimate 

 feather, with a whitish spot at the end of it. — R. B. S.] 



99. Anthus cervinus. 



Anthus cervinus (Pall.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. 

 p. 585 (1885) ; Shelley, B. Africa, i. p. 13 (1896). 



No. 995. 6 ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 15, 1898. 

 Iris brown ; bill dark brownish black, gape and base of 

 lower mandible yellow ; feet dark brown. First seen to-day 

 on open downs. Saw two others. 



No. 1004. c^ ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, April 17, 1898. 



