310 ANTHUS GOULDI. 



Btittikofer informs us that he met with it throughout Liberia 

 from Grand Cape Mount to Cape Palmas, frequenting the 

 open country where the grass had been recently burnt. The 

 type of A. gouldi which is in the British Museum came from 

 Cape Palmas. The species is also abundant on the Gold 

 Coast, where Mr. T. E. Buckley and I met with it in February 

 and March distributed over the Accra plains, and it has been 

 found in Togoland by Dr. Biithner. In the Niger district 

 Forbes procured a specimen at Shonga, and Mr. Hartert met 

 with flocks of them along the Kasia valley in September, 

 frequenting the open country. 



This species, I believe, has not been met with in Came- 

 roous, for the Pipit procured there by Sir Harry Johnstone, 

 which I referred to A. pyrrhonotus (P. Z. S. 1887, p. 125), is 

 a variety or subspecies of A. rufulus. It is also doubtful if it 

 occurs in Gaboon and Loango, for all the specimens I have 

 examined from these countries belong to the long-toed A. 

 pallidiventris. 



In the British Museum there is a specimen from Angola, 

 procured by Mr. Monteiro, who found these Pipits very 

 common on the grassy plains near Bembe. From this locality 

 I can trace the range of A. gouldi across the continent to 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, for I have seen specimens in the Tring 

 Museum collected by Bohndorff on the Upper Congo at 

 Kasongo, and Mr. Neumann found them frequenting the open 

 country to the west of Kilimanjaro. In British Bast Africa 

 Mr. Jackson has collected a fine series from Nandi, Samia, 

 Ntebi, Kakamera in Kavirondo, and in Kikuyu. This col- 

 lection contains a young bird exactly like the immature speci- 

 men of A. pyrrhonotus I have above described from South 

 Africa, with the same uniform flanks, in which character 

 these birds differ strongly from A. latistriatus. Emin has 

 collected specimens at Bukoba on the western shores of Vic- 



