296 ANTHUS CHLORIS. 



Anthus icterinus, Hartl. Ibis, 1862, p. 147 Swellendam. 



Adult (summer). Upper parts blackish brown with broad pale edges 

 to the feathers, the latter almost hiding the dark centres on the hind neck 

 and lower back ; the outer wing-coverts and most of the primaries edged 

 with yellow ; axillaries and a large portion of the under wing-coverts next 

 to the bend of the wing bright yellow ; tail-feathers blackish brown, with 

 narrow pale edges slightly tinted with yellow, and some white on the outer 

 wo pairs ; outer tail-feather white with a patch on the basal portion of the 

 inner web blackish, penultimate feather with an angular white end ; sides 

 of head brown mottled with black and white and tinted with yellow on the 

 sides of the forehead and behind the eye ; chin, throat, breast and centre 

 of abdomen bright yellow with black shaft-stripes to the feathers of the 

 lower throat and sides of fore-chest ; remainder of the under surface of 

 the body buff washed with a more tawny shade on the flanks and with 

 blackish lanceolate centres to the greater under tail coverts. Total length 

 7-1 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 335, tail 2-9, tarsus 095. Newcastle, <? , 

 9. 11. 81 (Butler). 



Adult (winter). Differs only from the summer plumage in having the 

 sides of the head white with no trace of yellow, the yellow of the under 

 parts confined to the centre of the chest, the remainder of the throat and 

 chest being tawny buff fading into white towards the chin, and the dark 

 shaft-stripes of the lower throat less strongly marked. Newcastle, $ , 6. 7. 81 

 (Butler). 



The Smaller Yellow-tufted Pipit inhabits South. Africa, 

 south of the Orange and Limpopo rivers. 



The most western range known for this species is Swel- 

 lendam ; here Mr. Cairncross procured a specimen which Dx\ 

 Hartlaub described, and proposed for it the name of A. 

 icterinus, if it should prove to be distinct from the present 

 species which he by error calls A. limonellus, Licht. The type 

 came from " Kaffraria," and in the same district, at Grahams- 

 town, the species has been procured by Mr. Granville. Stark 

 writes : " I met with this Pipit in numbers on the veldt near 

 Nottingham Road, in Natal, in October and November, 1893. 

 They were in pairs, but had apparently not commenced nesting. 

 A male had its stomach filled with the remains of mantides 

 and small beetles. At this season the cocks were frequently 



