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very distinct longitudinal spots of black; thighs and under tail- 
coverts pale sandy buff; under wing-coverts smoky brown, the 
lower ones slightly tinged with sandy buff; axillaries smoky brown 
with sandy buff margins; quills below dusky brown, inner edges 
ashy fulyous: “bill brown, with the basal portion of the lower 
mandible flesh-colour; legs and feet yellowish clay-colour ; iris 
brown” (feid). Total length, 6°5 inches; culmen, 0°6; wing, 
3°5; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 1:1. 
524. AnrHus paLLuscens, Bocage. Pale Tawny Pipit. 
This species is a pale edition of A. caffer, which it resembles in 
the character of its markings, but differs in its extremely light 
colouration. Only one specimen is known as yet, viz., the type 
which has been kindly lent to us by Prof. Barboza du Bocage; it 
was procured by Anchieta at Humbe on the Cunene River, and, 
although we should like to have seen more specimens of this pale 
form, yet the mere fact that none of the many specimens examined 
by us from other parts of Africa in the least approach it in colour, 
induces us to believe that it may be a differeut species peculiar to 
South-Western Africa. 
Fig. Bocage, Orn, Angola, pl. viii. fig. 2. 
525. ANTHUS NICHOLSONI, Sharpe. | Nicholson’s Pipit. 
Anthus campestris, auct. ex Afr. merid. 
All the remaining Pipits of South Africa besides the three 
foregoing species have the 2nd, 8rd, 4th, and 5th primaries 
emarginate on the outer web, and the three species which follow are 
distinguished by their smoky or fulvous brown axillaries and under 
wing-coverts. One of these appears to us to be without a name, as 
we cannot at present find any of the published descriptions which 
will suit it, and we have affixed to it the name of Mr. Francis 
Nicholson who has long been studying the Motacillide, and whose 
monograph of the family we hope shortly to welcome. 
The present species is about the same in size as A. pyrrhonotus, 
but is distinguished by its more mottled back and by the markings 
of the two outer tail-feathers: it would appear to be the South 
African representative of Anthus sordidus of Abyssinia, but is not 
nearly so distinctly mottled on the back, although it is much more 
varied in this respect than its ally A. pyrrhonotus. ‘The tail- 
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