174 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



Motacilla f lav a. 



Motacilla Jlava, Liun. S. N. p. 331. 

 Budytes Rayi (Bouap.) , Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 72. 

 Motacilla flava , Finscli und Hartl. Vög. Ost-Afr. p. 268. 

 Collected at Grand Cape Mount. 



Not rare in farms, even close to the villages of the 

 Negroes. 



Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



An til us pyrrhonotus. 



Anthus pyrrJionotus , Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. I. p. 

 361; — Sharpe et Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France. II. p. 477. 



Anthus Gouldii, Fras. P. Z. S. 1843, p. 27; — Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 73. 



Hab. Africa, South of the Sahara. 



Collected at Buluma, near the Fisherman Lake. 



A male bird, contained in my collection is according 

 very well with the description in Hartlaub. A female , 

 shot on the same spot a few days later , is darker brown 

 underneath and has very strongly pronounced dark mous- 

 tachial stripes. Exactly similar in size and color is a male 

 specimen in the Leyden Museum, collected by v. Heuglin 

 at Bongo and sent in under the name of Anthus mystacalis. 



These birds are generally found in pairs together , in 

 farms and grassy plains short after the grass is burnt off. 

 Wing in male 9,5 , in female 9 cm. 



Iris dark brown , upper mandible blackish horn-color , 

 lower one yellowish flesh-color, feet flesh-color. 



Macronyx croceus. 



Alauda crocea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. I. p. 365. 

 Macronyx croceus, Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 73; — Boc. 

 Orn. d'Angola, p. 297. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, "Vol. VII. 



