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pale buff, breast deeper buff, under tail-coverts slightly more rufous ; an ill- 

 defined blackish band down the sides of the throat, crop and entire sides 

 of the body with blackish centres to the feathers ; under surface of wing 

 dusky brown, with the coverts rather more rufous, and with an almost 

 obsolete rufous shade towards the inner margins of the quills. Iris brown, 

 bill dark brown, with the base of the lower mandible whitish brown. Total 

 length 6'5 inches, culmen 055, wing 3-5, tail 2-7, tarsus l - 05, hind toe 04, 

 hind claw 035. Kavirondo, ?, 12. 11. 94 (Jackson). This specimen is 

 probably immature. 



Nearly Adult. Upper parts nearly uniform sepia brown ; wing-feathers 

 mostly narrowly edged with tawny buff; tail like that of A. pyrrhonotus, 

 dark brown fading into tawny buff on the outermost web ; lores black ; ear- 

 coverts dark brown ; a broad eyebrow, cheek and throat buff mottled with 

 black, passing into cinnamon on the body and under wing-coverts, thighs and 

 under tail-coverts, and the crop and side of the fore chest with blackish 

 shaft- stripes ; under surface of the quills dark brown obscurely washed with 

 rufous on the edges of the inner webs. Total length 7*3 inches, wing 4-0, 

 tail 3-0, tarsus 1-05, hind toe 0-4, hind claw 0-6. Mendi, <?, 2. 4. 99 (Lovat). 



Young. Differs from the last bird described in having the upper parts 

 slightly blacker, with narrow rufous buff edges to all the feathers, which 

 edges are rather broader on the wings and tail ; under parts paler and more 

 rufous buff ; the crop and entire sides of the body mottled with brownish 

 black centres to the feathers. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3'7, 

 tail 3-0, tarsus 1-0, hind toe 0-35, hind claw 0-35. Mendi, 8. 4. 99 (Lovat). 



Jackson's Pipit probably inhabits Southern Abyssinia as 

 well as Kavirondo. 



With the exception of A. melindse, this is the only Pipit of 

 the A. pyrrhonotus group which has the flanks boldly streaked 

 at any period of its life. If I am right in referring Lord 

 Lovat's two specimens from Mendi to this form it would 

 shoWj as is highly probable, that the type is an immature 

 bird, and that the adults not only lose the stripes on the 

 flanks, but that the hind claw becomes greatly elongated as 

 in typical A. pyrrhonotus from South Africa. 



Anthus melindse, sp. nov. 



Anthus pyrrhonotus (nee Vieill.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 573 Melinda. 



Above, dark ashy brown with large dusky centres to the feathers ; 

 greater and median wing-coverts with broad rufous shaded buff edges ; 



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