DESCRIPTION, DISTRIBUTION, HABITS 



very tame and unsuspicious, and when alarmed Hy a few yards 

 and perch on a stone, dead twig, or low bush. The nest is cup 

 shaped, and composed of dry stalks of grass lined with finer 

 grass and hair, and placed amongst the exposed roots and herbage 

 at the foot of a ledge, or in a low bush at the side of or beneath 

 a rock. The eggs are 4 to 5 in number, white, zigzagged, and 

 scrawled all over with iine lines of purple-brown and black ; 

 size, 0.75 by 0.58. 



Cinnamon-backed Pipit {Anthus pyrrhonotus). (Vol. L* 

 p. 221.) 



Description. — Male : brown above, under surface buff, 

 lighter in the centre. Tail feathers dark brown edged with 

 grey. Eyebrow and feathers below the eye whitish. Iris 

 hazel. Bill dull brown. Legs and feet dark fleshy in colour. 



Lengthy 6.60 ; tail, 2.35 ; wing, 3.65. 

 Female resembles the male. 



Distribution. — Common on the plains all over Africa from 

 the Cape to Abyssinia in the east, and the Congo in the west. 



Habits. — It frequents the veld in pairs, and often perches 

 on stones, termite heaps, shrubs, and trees. The nest is com- 

 posed of grass lined with finer grass. It is cup shaped, and placed 

 in a slight hollow under a tuft of grass. Clutch, 3. Eggs dull 

 white or cream, mottled and spotted with grey, brown, and red- 

 purple. 



Length., 0.85 by 0.60. 

 Orange-throated Lark {Macronyx capensis). (Vol. I., 



p. 221.) 



Description. — Male : brown above, the centre of the 

 feathers darker. Lesser wing coverts edged with orange, the 

 primaries with yellow. Tail feathers brown tipped with white, 

 with the exception of the two centre ones. Eye brown-orange. 

 Lores and eye-ring yellow. Ear coverts brown. Throat 

 orange-red. Breast and abdomen orange-yellow. The throat 



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