300 ANTHUS TRIVIAL IS. 



coverts pale buff, forming two indistinct partial bars on the wing ; axillaries 

 and part of the under wing-coverts white ; quills with very indistinct, 

 broad, pale inner margins ; tail with the white pattern confined to the 

 outer end half of the exterior feather, and a white angular end to the next ; 

 sides of head mottled brown and buff ; under surface buff, inclining to white 

 on the upper throat and centre of the abdomen ; sides and base of throat, 

 the chest and flanks, washed with brownish buff, and with blackish brown 

 shaft-stripes. Iris brown ; upper mandible dusky ; lower mandible and legs 

 pale brown. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 045, wing 325, tail 23, tarsus 

 0-85, hind claw 3. Avington, ?, 10. 4. 72 (Shelley), and Tatin R, $ 

 10. 12. 80 (Jameson). 



The Tree Pipit ranges over Africa and Em-ope generally, 

 and extends eastward into India. 



From West Africa there are two specimens in the British 

 Museum, one from Dakar on Cape Verde and the other from 

 Shongo on the Niger. In the intervening Togoland specimens 

 have been collected in December and March. In South Africa, 

 Wahlberg procured a specimen at the Limpopo between 25° 

 and 26° S. lat., and Jameson one a little further north at the 

 Tatin l-iver. From German East Africa it has been recorded 

 by Dr. Reichenow from Kakoma. 



In the Upper White Nile district Emin has collected 

 specimens at Kudurma and Baguera, and in British East 

 Africa Mr. Ansorge met with the species at Masindi in Unyoro 

 in January. Mr. Jackson found the Tree Pipits plentiful in 

 December at Ravine, where he also collected specimens in 

 March and April, and another one on Mount Elgon in 

 February. Some 500 miles nearly due north, in the water- 

 shed of the Blue Nile, Lord Lovat shot a specimen at Ganti 

 in Southern Abyssinia. 



Dr. A. Donaldson Smith procured the Tree Pipit in 

 Somaliland, at Sheik Husein in September, and in the same 

 month of the year Lefebure met with the species at Shirie in 

 Eastern Abyssinia. In the British Museum there are adult 

 and immature specimens collected by Esler at Eylet, and 



