314 ANTHUS SORDIDUS. 



Baguera, that Fischer found it in the Shashi mountains to the 

 north-east of Speke's Gulf and also at Naiwasha lake, and 

 that Mr. Neumann may find it amongst his specimens from 

 the plains to the south-west of Kilimanjaro. 



From Somaliland there are two specimens in the British 

 Museum, collected by Mr. Hawker, January 6, at Jifa Medir, 

 where he also collected a pair of A. sordidus on December 31. 

 Lord Lovat also met with these two species during his journey 

 from Berbera to the Blue Nile : A. nicholsoni at Staboolo and 

 Feyambiro in December, at Gadaburka on January 21, and at 

 Arriro, February 19, while at Hirna, January 9, he shot a 

 specimen of A. sordidus. It is therefore probable that 

 Antinori and Dr. Ragazzi likewise procured the two species 

 in Shoa. 



Anthus sordidus. 



Anthus sordidus, Riipp. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 560 (1885) ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Genov. 1884, p. 167 ; 1888, p. 264 Shoa ; Shelley, B. 



Afr. I. No. 163 (1896) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1896, p. 81 ; 1898, p. 402 



Somali; Elliot, Field Colurnb. Mus. i. No. 2, p. 40 (1897) Somali; 



Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 66 Somali ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 141, pt. 



Abyssinia. 

 Anthus eockburnioe, Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 305 (1890) Nilghiri hills. 



Adult. Upper parts dusky brown with broad isabelline buff edges to 

 the feathers, of a slightly more ashy shade on the mantle and partially 

 tinged with rufous on the median wing-coverts ; pale pattern of the tail 

 extends over half of the outer feather, the larger portion of the outer web 

 being buffy white with a narrow brown shaft-stripe ; the penultimate 

 feather with an angular pale end almost confined to the inner web ; sides 

 of head brown mottled with buff, and with a well marked broad buffy 

 white eyebrow ; cheeks almost white ; chin and upper throat white, with a 

 line of dusky spots down the sides ; under surface of body buffy white with 

 a slightly more rufous shade on the crop, sides of body and under tail- 

 coverts ; feathers of the crop, sides of lower throat and sides of chest with 

 fairly broad brownish black shaft-stripes ; a very slight trace of narrow 

 brown shaft- stripes on the flanks ; axillaries and under wing-coverts very 

 pale tawny buff, the latter slightly mottled with dark bases to the feathers ; 



