ANTHUS CAFFER. 535 
With regard to its occurrence in Natal, Majors Butler and 
Feilden and Capt. Reid give the following note :—“‘ Common at 
the Ingagane River, near Newcastle, where Reid obtained four 
specimens in June and July, feeding on the bare patches round the 
stone cattle ‘kraals.” He also met with it near Ladysmith in 
November, and obtained the eggs from two nests on the 18th and 
19th of that month. The nests were cup-shaped, well concealed 
among the growing herbage, and resembling those of our common 
European Meadow Pipit. The eggs im the first nest, three in 
number, are white, with distinct freckles and small blotches of 
chocolate-brown, and a more obscure series of ashy grey markings, 
most numerous towards the larger end, measuring ‘8 inches by 
*6 inches. In the second nest the two eggs have the markings 
smaller, but more numerous and of a slightly duller brown.” 
Adult male.—General aspect above mottled, the plumage rather 
clear sandy brown with distinct blackish centres to all the feathers, 
the margins of the mantle plumes slightly ashy; lower back and 
rump perfectly uniform sandy ash-brown; wing-coverts more 
strongly mottled than the back, the feathers with blackish bases 
and broad sandy rufous margins, edged with creamy whitish at their 
ends; inner median and greater coverts, bastard-wing and primary 
coverts*blackish edged with ashy rufous ; quills blackish, externally 
sandy rufous, the primaries narrowly edged with whitish; inner 
secondaries very broadly margined with pale sandy buff; upper 
tail-coverts sandy brown with dusky brown centres; tail-feathers 
blackish, narrowly edged with sandy brown, the two centre feathers 
more broadly edged with sandy buff inclining to white near the 
tips, the outermost feather almost entirely white, excepting a dusky 
patch for two-thirds of the inner web along its edge, the penulti- 
mate tail-feather also for the most part white, but having the dusky 
patch on the inner web darker and extending nearer to the tip, the 
shaft of this feather being blackish ; head and neck clear sandy brown 
mottled with blackish centres to the feathers like the back ; lores 
dusky ; a well-defined eyebrow of yellowish buff; ear-coverts clear 
sandy brown, darker on the upper margin; cheeks yellowish buff, 
separated from the whitish throat by an indistinct moustachial line 
of black; lower throat, fore-neck, breast and flanks bright sandy 
buff, a little browner on the latter; centre of the breast and 
abdomen isabelline white ; onthe lower throat and fore-neck some 
