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of the wing ; under wing-coverts bright yellow near the edge of the wing ; 

 tail brown with partial narrow yellow edges, pale pattern of tail brownish 

 white, and almost confined to the ends of the inner webs of the two onter 

 pairs of feathers ; sides of head mottled brown and white, with a dusky 

 patch in front of the eye and a broad buffy white eyebrow ; under surface 

 rufous shaded buff, inclining to white on the chin and upper throat, and 

 obsoletely mottled with dusky shaft-stripes on the sides and base of the 

 throat. Bill brown, paler beneath ; iris dark brown ; legs pale brown. 

 Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3*5, tail 3, tarsus l'l. Bur- 

 ghersdorp, $ (Atmore). 



The Larger Yellow-tufted Pipit inhabits Cape Colony. Very 

 little is known regarding this species. The type, a male, was 

 sent by Layard to the Bremen Museum ; it was obtained at 

 Cape Town, where Andersson also procured a male specimen, 

 November 16, 1865, which is now in the British Museum, in 

 company with two others from Colesberg, and one from Bur- 

 ghersdorp. Stark obtained a male on the Cape Flats, which 

 attracted his attention by its song, uttered while hovering in 

 the air. Its stomach contained a spider, three small grass- 

 hoppers and a few grass- seeds. 



Anthus trivialis. 



Anthus trivialis (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 543 (1885) Dakar, 

 ■Shonga B., Bogos ; id. Ibis, 1891, p. 588 Mt. Elgon ; Beichen, J. f. O. 

 1891, p. 390 Togo; id. Vog. Deutsch 0. Afr. p. 199 Kakoma; 

 Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 473 Somali; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 157 

 (1896); Beichen. J. f. O. 1897, p. 42 Togo; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 627 Bavine; Hartert in Ansorge's "Under Afr. Sun." p. 348 

 (1899) Unyoro ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 140 Abyssinia; Stark, Faun. 

 S. Afr. i. p. 247 (1900). 



Pipastes plumatus (P. L. S. Mull.) Bouvier, Cat. Ois. March. &c, p. 16 

 (1875) Dakar. 



Anthus arboreus (Gm.) Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. 1887, p. 327 Kudurma ; id. 

 Abhand. Brem. 1891, p. 17 Baguera. 



Adult. Upper parts ashy brown with a faint olive tinge ; feathers of 

 the crown and mantle with blackish shaft-stripes occupying about one- 

 third of each feather ; wing with the ends of many of the median and greater 



