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feathers, however, are so characteristically marked that we do not 
think it can be mistaken for any other African Pipit. The penul- 
timate feather is almost entirely blackish, save for a narrow fringe 
of isabelline along the outer web, sometimes extending round the tip 
of the inner web, but always extremely narrow. The outer feather is 
diagonally blackish on the inner web, the shaft appears to be always 
blackish at the ends and generally for its whole extent. The outer 
web is pale isabelline buff for its entire extent, but becoming whiter 
towards the end; this is especially the case on the inner web, which 
is diagonally pale isabelline for its terminal third, becoming whiter 
towards the tip. 
Five specimens of this species are in the British Museum. One 
is a male collected by Mr. T. C. Atmore, at Eland’s Post, in June, 
1870; a second was obtained by the same gentleman at Sigonell 
on the Vaal River; a third, also a male, was shot by Mr. C. Newby 
near Kingwilliamstown on the 24th of May; all these specimens 
are in a very similar plumage and appear to be in winter dress. 
A female killed by Mr. Andersson near Cape Town on the Ist of 
May is also in winter plumage and differs only in being rather 
more fulvescent on the tail-feathers. The editor’s collection also 
contained a specimen of Mr. Andersson’s marked as a male, but 
unfortunately bearing no indication of its locality. It is apparently 
one of his Ondonga skins, and seems to be in breeding plumage. It 
is much more rufescent than the winter killed birds, and from the 
wearing off of the edges of the feathers the dark mesial markings of 
the upper surface appear in somewhat stronger relief, and impart a 
more distinctly mottled appearance. 
526. AnrHus pyrrHonotus, V. Cinnamon-backed Pipit. 
Megalophonus pyrrhonothus (V.): Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 211. 
Anthus lewcophrys, id, tom. cit. p. 122. 
This Pipit, the Enkelde Leeuwerk of the Dutch colonists, is-by far 
the commonest of the South African species. It is found abundantly 
all over the colony. Mr. Andersson procured it in the neighbourhood 
of Cape Town, as well as at the Knysna. Mr. Rickard says that it 
is common near Port Elizabeth, and we shot it ourselves in the 
neighbourhood of Grahamstown. It was sent by Mr. Atmore from 
Bland’s Post, as well as from the Vaal River, and Captain Trevelyan 
procured it near Kingwilliamstown. We have seen examples from 
