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buif like the secondaries; primaries and their coverts dark brown 
. with narrow edgings of olive-yellow, the first primary whitish along 
the outer web; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dark brown with 
distinct edgings of sandy buff, slightly washed with yellow towards 
the base, the penultimate feather tipped with white, the outermost 
one for the greater part white excepting a broad diagonal mark of 
brown on the inner web, widening towards the base: lores and a 
broad eyebrow dingy white, as also a ring of feathers round the eye; 
ear-coverts dull white, marked with dark brown on the upper and 
lower margins ; cheeks sandy buff; throat dull white, the fore. neck 
sandy buff narrowly streaked with reddish brown shaft-lines ; centre 
of the breast pale yellow; abdomen dull whitish, the sides of the 
body dull sandy buff, with distinct dark brown shaft-streaks on the 
flanks ; under tail-coverts fulvous, with dark brown centres; edge 
of the wing and axillary feathers light olive-yellow; remainder of 
under wing-coverts dark brown, broadly edged with white; quills 
ashy brown below, greyer along the inner web: “ iris dark brown; 
upper mandible, and tip of lower, neutral tint; base of lower 
mandible purple flesh-colour; legs and toes light yellowish brown ” 
(Reid). Total length, 6:7 inches; culmen, 0°6; wing, 3°2; tail, 2:7; 
tarsus, 0°95; hind toe, 0°45; claw, 0°5. 
530. AnrTHus cRENATUS, F’. and H. Larger Yellow-tufted Pipit. 
This species belongs to the section of Pipits with the shoulders or, 
more strictly speaking, the wing-coverts washed with yellow. It is 
distinguished from A. chloris by its larger size, curved hind claw and 
uniform upper surface. 
The typical example was sent by us to the Bremen Museum from 
the neighbourhood of Cape Town, and another specimen exists in 
the British Museum, obtained by the late Mr. Andersson at the same 
place. Beyond these two birds we have only seen a pair, for which 
we were indebted to Mr. T. C. Atmore, who procured them in the 
eastern province, the male at Burghersdorp, the female at Colesberg. 
Adult male—Uniform brown above, with obsolete ashy-brown 
edges to most of the feathers of the upper surface ; wing-coverts and 
quills brown, the least and median coverts, primary-coverts and 
primaries washed with olive-yellow on the margins, the inner greater 
coverts and inner secondaries edged externally with ashy-brown; 
tail-feathers dark brown slightly washed with olive yellow on the 
