298 AN THUS CRENATUS. 



The Striped Yellow-tufted Pipit inhabits Africa south of 

 about 9° S. lat. Iu West Africa a single specimen has been 

 procured at Pungo Ndongo, just north of the Quanza river, 

 where, according to Anchieta, it is called by the natives 

 " Kaparala," apparently a local name for all Pipits. This 

 is the type of A. angolensis, Bocage, and I find no further 

 record of its occurrence in any other part of the western half 

 of Africa. 



In Natal, my friends Mr. T. L. Ayres collected two speci- 

 mens for me at Pinetowu in January and June, and Mr. 

 Glordge one in Zululand. In the latter country the Messrs. 

 Woodward met with the species at Eschowe and at the Ivuna 

 river below the Nongoma range. Near Rustenberg Mr. T. 

 Ayres procured a specimen in July, and writes : " It is a 

 "very uncommon species, frequenting rocky hill-sides, especially 

 where the stream issues from the rock." In the Barberton 

 district a specimen was shot by Dr. P. Rendall, and the type 

 of the species was discovered by Wahlberg at the Limpopo 

 river. To the north of the Zambesi two specimens have been 

 collected at Zomba in the Shire highlands, and are now in 

 the British Museum. The species extends into German East 

 Africa, for I have examined a specimen in the Berlin Museum, 

 dated December 3, 1897, which was obtained by Dr. Flilleborn 

 to the north of Lake Nyasa. 



Anthus crenatus. (Pi. 13, fig. 2.) 



Anthus crenatus, Finsch and Hartl. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 541 (1885) 

 Cape Col. ; Shelley, B. Air. I. No. 156 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. 

 p. 245 (1900). 



Adult. Upper parts uniform earthy brown with obsolete dark centres 

 to the feathers of the crown and mantle ; wings dark brown with the 

 edges of the feathers pale and shaded with yellow towards the outer margin 



