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are large and vary much; but they are usually of a white or cream- 
coloured ground plentifully spotted, but chiefly at the obtuse end, im 
the form of a ring, with brown and pale purplish spots of different 
shades and sizes: axis, 13”; diam, 9”. 
Upper parts, variegated dark-brown, the feathers having light 
edges; wing and tail-feathers the same, the edges of some of the 
former being yellow, others white; three outer tail-feathers more or 
less tipped with white; over the eye a bright orange line; from the 
corners of the bill rise two black stripes, which extend down the 
sides of the chin, and unite in front on the lower part of the throat; 
all within this is a brilliant, shining, crimson-orange ; below it the 
centre of the breast and belly is orange; sides and flanks cinereous ; 
edges of shoulders bright orange; toes very long and strong, the 
hinder one armed with a claw 9” long. Length, 7’9’"; wing, 3’ 9’". 
Fig. Levaill, Ois. d’Afr. iv. pl. 195. 
520. Macronyx striozatus, Heugl. 
Southern Yellow-breasted Long-claw. 
Anthus flavigaster, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 121. 
A fine male bird, from which the subjoined description is taken, 
is contained in the Albany Museum, and was procured near Grahams- 
town. ‘his is the only instance of the occurrence of the species 
within the limits of the colony, although it is frequently seen in 
Natal collections. Captain Shelley states that they were common 
about Pinetown, in Natal, and he also met with them near Durban. 
He writes: ‘‘ They were generally in pairs, and when disturbed from 
the high grass, they often fly to the topmost branches of some 
neighbouring tree.” The specimens brought to England by Mr. 
F. A. Barratt, belonged to this species and not to M. capensis ; and 
he states that he has seen it from Bloemfontein up to Pretoria and 
Nazareth, and on his trip to Rustenberg. “I have never seen them,” 
he adds, “elsewhere than in the grass. This bird is often killed by 
waggon-drivers with the whip, and I have frequently done so myself 
when I wanted a specimen.” Dr. Kirk found them abundantly in the 
Zambesi, on the sea-coast of the Delta, and he believes that it was this 
same species which was observed in the interior. It ranges along 
the Eastern Coast of Africa into the region of the Gazelle River, 
in North-Eastern Africa. Although Mr. Andersson never obtained 
specimens during his sojourn in South-Western Africa, Senor 
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