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October); French Equatorial Africa : (B. Alexander, October); 

 Southern Nigeria (Kemp, March ; and Lowe, January); Cameroon 

 (Bâtes, October); Congo-mouth (Ex. Sharpe coll. March). 



(This species was toberably cominon on January loth. — 

 W. P. L.) 



Anthus cervinus. 



Motacilla cervimis Pall., Zool. Rosso. As., 1, 1827, p. 511. — 

 Type locality : Siberia. 



The spécimen of the Red-throated Pipit which Mr Lowe shot 

 at Iju near Lagos on January I5th iq20 is the first example from 

 the West Atrican coast. 



A single bird was also obtained at Kaddai near Lake Chad, 

 Northern Nigeria by Boyd Alexander on February isth 1905. 



It winters usually in East Africa; we hâve spécimens in the 

 Muséum from Kgypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Sudan, Somaliland, and 

 Kexiya Colony in addition to N. and S. Nigeria. 



(Scarce-a single bird shot on some freshly burnt grassland. — 

 W. P. L.) 



Anthus leucophrys zenkeri (?) 



Anthus leucophrys zenkeri Neumann, J. f. O., 190b, p. 235. — 

 Type locality : Jaunde, Cameroon. 



Mr Lowe obtained a nice séries of what is apparently Zenkers 

 Pipit at Iju, near Lagos, in December and January ; it has been 

 anything but easy to name. I was at first inclined to believe, that 

 is was Anthus gouldi gouhli Fraser and am still persuaded that 

 Prof. Neumann would assign Mr Lowes séries to that form 

 (Neumann considers gouldi a race of leucophrys^ cf. [ourn. fur. 

 Orn., 1906, p. 236). As Col. Meinertzhagen was at that time 

 engaged in monographing certain of the African Pipits I handed 

 my séries over to him for détermination and he believes them to 

 be probably A. leucophrys zenkeri. 



