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mottled with brown and purplish-grey; another egg is cream- 
coloured, densely mottled with pale reddish-brown and purplish-grey ; 
and a fifth is pale buff, ah oe with pale brown. They 
measure respectively : °55 by °62; °88 by -61; ‘8 by °6; ‘8 by 62 
*82 by °57. 
4. Neddivatam, Nilghiri Hills, 6500 Hume Coll. 
feet, May (W. Davison). 
eae ilehiri Hills. Hume Coll. 
Anthus brachyurus, Sundev. 
(Plate V. fig. 3.) 
Anthus_ brachyurus, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 827; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 
Birds 8. Africa, p. 539 (1875- “84); id, Cat. Birds B. M.x.p. 551 
(1885) ; Stark, Fauna 8S. Afr., Birds, i. D. 248 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds 
Afr. ii. p. 303 (1900) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p- 145 (1906). 
The eggs of the Cape Short-tailed Pipit are of a blunt oval shape 
and possess very little gloss. They are white, freckled with pale 
brown and grey. The markings form an irregular zone round the 
broad end of the egg and are sparingly distributed elsewhere. 
Three examples measure respectively: *65 by °52; °68 by 52; -67 
by 52. 
3. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C. ]. 
Anthus vaalensis, Shelley. 
(Plate V. fig. 6.) 
Anthus gouldi, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 208. 
Anthus leucophrys, Layard, Ibis, 1369, p- 368. 
Anthus pyrrhonotus, Sharpe (nec Vieill. ), ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, 
p- 537 (1875-84) [pt.]; Butler, Feilden § Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 336; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds zB. M, x. p. 555 (1885) [pt.]; Stark, Fauna 
S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 2 0 (1900) | pt. ]. 
Anthus vaalensis, co ‘Bir ds Afr. ii. p. 311 (1900) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 
v. p- 146 (1906). 
Eggs of the Tawny Plain-backed Pipit vary from an ordinary, 
somewhat pointed oval shape to a broad, blunt oval, and are very 
slightly glossy. They are whitish or cream-coloured, more or less 
densely speckled and mottled all ever, or sometimes blotched, with 
brown and underlying lavender. Two eggs from Lindley differ in 
having all the surface-markings of a light rusty-brown or sienna. 
Examples measure from °78 to *85 in ‘length, and from ‘58 to °67 
in breadth. 
7. Transvaal (7. Ayres: Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
3. 14-Streams, Vaal River, Nov. R. B. W oosnain, Esq. [C.] 
2. Lindley, O.R.C., 22nd Dec. Major 1 Sparrow | [Pa 
l. Neweastle, Natal, 10th Oct. Capt. Savile G. Reid [ Fes 
3. Newcastle, 10th Nov. (Z. A. Butler.) Crowley Bequest. 
