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ANTHUS LINEIVENTRIS. 541 
plumage is mottled with dark centres to the feathers, and the only 
other species with which it could be confounded is Anthus chloris. 
It is, however, larger than that bird, and has no yellow in the 
centre of the breast, which is streaked with black, like the flanks. 
The species was originally discovered by the late Professor 
Wahlberg, in the Limpopo River, and it appears to have been only 
once obtained since, viz., by Senor Anchieta, at Pungo-Andongo 
to the north of the Quanza River. 
The following description is taken from the latter specimen, 
which has been kindly lent to us by Professor Barboza du Bocage :— 
Adult male.—General colour above dull brown, with lighter 
brown edgings to the feathers; head lighter brown, with dark 
brown centres to the feathers, producing a streaked appearance; 
hind neck more ashy brown with dark brown centres, appearing 
streaked like the head; wings dark brown, all the feathers broadly 
margined with fulvous, washed with olive yellow on the least and 
median wing-coverts, the quills also edged with olive-yellow ; tail 
dark brown, margined with lighter brown and with olive-yellow near 
the base ; outermost feather brown, with a large triangular wedge of 
white on the inner web, the outer web white also near the base; 
penultimate feather with a smaller triangle of white at the tip of the 
inner web, the third feather having one smaller still; lores and a 
narrow eyebrow dull whitish, the latter tinged with yellow; in front of 
the eyea dusky spot; round the eye a ring of yellowish white plumes ; 
ear-coverts dark brown ; cheeks white with small triangular spots of 
dark brown; throat dull white, unspotted; rest of under surface of 
body dull white, the throat marked with small triangular spots] of 
blackish brown, widening on the fore-neck; breast and sides of 
the body longitudinally streaked with blackish brown ; thighs dark 
brown; under tail-coverts dull white with large centres of dark 
brown; under wing-coverts olive-yellow with brown bases; bill 
blackish, the lower mandible yellowish, the tip dusky; feet 
yellowish; irisdusky brown. Total length, 7°4inches; culmen, 0°65; 
wing, 3°5; tail, 2°9; tarsus, 1-1. 
529. Awnruus cHLoris, Licht. Smaller Yellow-tufted Pipit. 
Though possessing the yellow axillaries and yellow under wing- 
coverts of A. lineiventris, which it further resembles in its mottled 
back, the present species may be distinguished from that bird by its 
